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2019-12-24 Down Under

New Zealand Gun Buyback Was An ‘Unmitigated Failure’

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 You don't say.

Posted by Crusader 2019-12-24 01:34|| 2019-12-24 01:34|| Front Page Top

#2 = the triumph of Hope over Experience

Posted by Dr. J 2019-12-24 01:36|| 2019-12-24 01:36|| Front Page Top

#3 That last paragraph is the winner: Registration = Confiscation

Posted by Frank G 2019-12-24 07:20|| 2019-12-24 07:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Gomer Pyle would be appropriate here, Suprise, Suprise, Suprise.

That Police Minister would be right at home in any of the fascist gov'ts of the '30s and '40s.

Posted by AlanC 2019-12-24 08:12|| 2019-12-24 08:12|| Front Page Top

#5 That should be the take away from any gun control push for registration.

Registration = Confiscation

Posted by DarthVader 2019-12-24 08:38|| 2019-12-24 08:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Wonder if any old Charltons showed up?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-12-24 09:44|| 2019-12-24 09:44|| Front Page Top

#7 A failure it is. It will be unmitigated when another shooting occurs that might have been stopped had the law abiding only had access to their weapons.

Posted by Warthog 2019-12-24 09:52|| 2019-12-24 09:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Police Minister Stuart Nash blamed the government’s inability to enforce its buyback scheme on a lack of gun registration.

When they say register to be grandfathered, you know they are bullshitting you.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-12-24 13:09|| 2019-12-24 13:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Next: Iraq-style house to house searches for weapons. Plenty of ex-Army mercs for hire who know how to do it.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-12-24 13:34|| 2019-12-24 13:34|| Front Page Top

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