Australia to Launch Continual Gun Amnesty in 2020

By Dean Weingarten

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- The Australian states and territories have agreed to make a continuous, ongoing amnesty for people to turn in and register guns that have previously not been registered. The continuous amnesty is expected to start in the second half of 2020. From pressreader.com:

Gun owners will be able to hand in their weapons, no questions asked, from next year, when Australia launches a national continuous gun amnesty.

All states and territories agreed to the first-ever continuous amnesty yesterday at a meeting of police and emergency services ministers in Adelaide.

Details of how the amnesty would proceed are still to be worked out. Previous amnesties have differed significantly.

One point for negotiation will be if firearms can be turned into gun shops, and the gun shops allowed to register the guns and pay the people who turned the unregistered gun in.

This helps to ensure the valuable property is not destroyed for no good reason. Another advantage of this system is the government does not have to pay for turned-in firearms. A continuous amnesty has been in place in some Australian states for a number of years.

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Source:: AmmoLand