{"id":59876,"date":"2018-03-01T06:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T06:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=59876"},"modified":"2018-03-01T06:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T06:22:50","slug":"australian-amnesty-nets-57000-firearms-rocket-launcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/australian-amnesty-nets-57000-firearms-rocket-launcher.html","title":{"rendered":"Australian amnesty nets 57,000 firearms and rocket launcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Australian amnesty nets 57,000 firearms and rocket launcher<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">An Australian government report says more than 57,000 illegal firearms including a rocket launcher and machine guns were handed in during a recent amnesty in which gun owners could surrender such weapons without penalty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The government and some gun policy analysts were surprised on Thursday by the large number of weapons that were surrendered in the first nationwide amnesty since a 1996 massacre in Tasmania state galvanized support for national gun controls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Tough laws that virtually banned semi-automatic rifles from private ownership accompanied by a government-funded gun buyback reduced the size Australia&#8217;s civilian arsenal by almost a third.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The reports says a three-month amnesty that ended in September also collected almost 2,500 semi-automatic and fully-automatic guns \u2014 the rapid-fire categories particularly targeted by the 1996 reforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2018\/02\/28\/australian-amnesty-nets-57000-firearms-and-rocket-launcher.html<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/australian-amnesty-nets-57000-firearms-rocket-launcher.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian amnesty nets 57,000 firearms and rocket launcher An Australian government report says more than 57,000 illegal firearms including a rocket launcher and machine guns were handed in during a recent amnesty in which gun owners could surrender such weapons without penalty. The government and some gun policy analysts were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5470],"tags":[122770],"class_list":["post-59876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-australian-amnesty-nets-57000-firearms-and-rocket-launcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}