Those are solutions to a different problem. Australia's buy-back and new legislation only worked because the public overwhelmingly supported them: > In an Age

Those are solutions to a different problem. Australia's buy-back and new legislation only worked because the public overwhelmingly supported them: > In an Age poll of 2058 Australians taken on 3-5 May 1996, 90 per cent of those surveyed supported a national ban on all automatic and semi-automatic firearms, 88 per cent supported firearms registration, 73 per cent thought that gun owners should pay an annual registration fee for each gun they own, and 69 per cent thought that gun owners should be required to store their guns at an armoury or with the police. - http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/Publications_Archive/CIB/cib9596/96cib16 http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departm... Gun bans and buy-backs are much less successful if people won't willingly cooperate.