Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ChrisLomont 1385 days ago
They did no such thing. Australians own more guns than ever. They had a buyback program, and people used it to turn old guns into new ones.
1 comments

> They did no such thing

You folks aren't actually going to make me dig up and link video of the guns being steamrolled, are you?

You can pull it up. It doesn't change that it was an empty political stunt, that most guns were not in the buyback, that people simply took the buyback money to buy new guns (which you can check at the time by massive gun profits selling guns to Australians), or, as I pointed out above, that there are more guns now than before Port Authur [1].

So go ahead and post the video. Then read the rest of the story.

[1] https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/australia-more-guns-n...