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To: one_less who wrote (440902)	12/16/2008 4:49:59 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573092

One year after gun-owners were forced to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed, including semi-automatic .22 rifles and shotguns, a program costing the government over 500 million dollars, the results are in... When it comes to guns, you can't rely solely on gun advocates for your news. After all, how are you going to stop crime when you collect only a small percentage of the available guns: "Since the ban has been in effect, membership in the Australian Sporting Shooters Association has climbed to about 112,000 -- a 200 percent increase. Australian press accounts report that the half a million-plus figure of weapons turned in to authorities so far only represents a tiny fraction of the guns believed to be in the country. According to one report, in March 1997 the number of privately-held firearms in Australia numbered around 10 million. "In the State of Queensland," for example, the report said only "80,000 guns have been seized out of a total of approximately 3 million, a tiny fraction." And, said the report, 15 percent of the more than half a million guns collected came from licensed gun dealers. Moreover, a black market allegedly has developed in the country. The report said about 1 million Chinese-made semi-automatics, "one type of gun specifically targeted by the new law," have been imported and sold throughout the country." worldnetdaily.com