Australia announced gun buyback scheme in wake of Bondi attack
www.bbc.com
It is the largest scheme since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, which prompted massive gun law reform.
  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    4 hours ago

    No, it was not. Gun buybacks are never successful.

    Look at this bullshit. Here’s a wider angle.

    It’s a joke, always is. People turn in their crappy, broken, rusty guns, get paid and the state is like, “Look how great this is!”

    Wish they’d do a buyback in my state. Got a couple of busted POS guns I’d love to get paid for.

    EDIT: Apparently lemmy doesn’t believe me. Let’s break down the first pic where we can see some detail. Making educated guesses here. Left to right:

    • Unknown, broken stock
    • Pellet gun
    • Unknown
    • Pellet gun
    • Unknown, but something’s off ?
    • Toy
    • Unknown, either a .22 or a pellet rifle
    • Broken body, snapped off stock
    • I think they zip tied two dissimilar gun together? Broken body, hence, the zip ties
    • Neat looking antique, WWII era? Older I think?
    • Homemade. How To Blow Your Fingers Off 101.
    • Bolt laying there as filler?
    • Homemade pistol. LOL, you couldn’t pay me to fire that monstrosity
    • 120+ yo old shotgun, can’t shoot modern loads or it explodes, missing foregrip, badly broken stock (have 2 such antiques)
    • Unknown single-shot rifle
    • Single shot, break-open shotgun.

    Not enough detail to guess on the last couple. One other thought, you can’t get ammo for much of that old garbage.

    What a haul of killing machines!

    • venusaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      8 hours ago

      Not sure what the point of the pics is. Looks like a huge pile of killing devices being disposed of…

      Cuz they’re not semi-automatic?

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        4 hours ago

        If one isn’t into guns, it’s hard to parse what you’re looking at it. You’re looking at mostly garbage. Those are grandpa’s guns, which may be great!, and I’d bet few actually function. Can’t get a new firing pin or funky spring for that 70-yo shotgun? Turn it in, get paid!

        EDIT: See my edited breakdown on that first pic: https://old.lemmy.world/comment/21103440

        Anyway, over on /r/liberalgunowners, we’d get a hearty chuckle out of the buy backs and police pics.

        Or, look at it this way: Almost every gun pictured is a long gun of some sort. In America, long guns, including AR-15s, are used in ~4% of gun deaths (including suicides, weirdly enough). It’s the pistols people kill with. See any pistols?