• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The Australian plan did take a year, October 1996 to September 1997, and all they got was 650,000 guns which was 20%.

    Americans first, have no obligation to give up their guns thanks to the 2nd Amendment and second, aren’t as likely to give up their guns.

    You aren’t getting 80 million (20%) even in a year, and again, we don’t have the capacity to collect and dispose of them.

    80 million / 50 (yeah, I know, it won’t be an even distribution, but let’s work the math roughly) 1.6 million per state / 12 months = 133,333 a month per state.

    The Australian plan took 12 months to collect 650,000. So the US would need to meet that in about 5 states in one month.

    The most successful gun buyback in US history collected 4,200 guns across 4 buybacks.

    https://www.hcp1.net/GunBuyback

    The Australian plan cannot work here.