Australians turn in 26,000 guns in national amnesty - BBC News

Not in this country!! Thank you James Madison!!

Any small town in USA has more than 26,000 guns.

From what my Aussie friends tell me, there are still plenty of guns "out there" in Australia - carefully hidden and not reported - that were not turned in because many Aussies are not pro-government automatons who just obey without question. Given that the BBC News (an anti-gun British news service) reported this information from anti-gun Australian government sources, I would have doubts about its credibility - probably over-reporting the number of guns turned in to make the effort look like it was more of a success than it actually was. My friends also told me that many of the turned-in guns were either incomplete or junk - in some cases inoperable. The guns in the photo (which include a Luger pistol, a Colt revolver, a Webley revolver and a couple of French interwar military rifles - were probably the most valuable ones collected by the authorities and displayed to make the gun round-up look good. Collectors will weep at the sight of that.