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Statistics

Australian firearm amnesty, buyback and destruction totals, 1987-2015

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Firearms Public health Gun control Law enforcement Police Violence prevention Armed violence Gun buyback schemes Australia
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From 1988 to 2015, Australia ran forty-one state, territory and federal firearm amnesties for a combined total of 3,274 weeks. From the reports in which numbers were published, a minimum of 1,121,577 firearms were surrendered to police for destruction.

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GunPolicy.org and authors 2016
Access Rights Type:
open
Post date:
15 Nov 2016

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