What Australia did was create a mandatory buyback. People had to give up their guns and the government gave them some amount of money, thus allowing them to say it wasn’t really confiscation.
Now, people have to get licenses and jump through other hoops in order to have a gun.
It seems not everyone got the memo.
Two guns were found in an unlocked parked car this week during a fugitive manhunt in the latest alarming breach of firearm laws.
Warrnambool police said the firearms were among about 10 seized in the past five months as gun offences jump across the region.
A middle-aged Warrnambool man will appear in court after this week’s find, which happened in a quiet residential street during the hunt for a wanted man.
He has been charged with being unlicensed and having unregistered firearms.
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Detective Sergeant Andrew Raven, of the Warrnambool police crime investigation unit, said there had been an increase in firearm offences during the past couple of months.
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The CIU chief said just last week a sawn-off double barrel shotgun was found in a backpack after offenders were disturbed breaking into the Our Lady Help Of Christians Primary School in east Warrnambool.
“In the past five months Warrnambool CIU detectives have seized about 10 firearms from the properties and vehicles of criminals,” he said.