Although the authors of that study acknowledged that shotguns accounted for the majority of firearm suicides in Australia in 1998, shotguns did not account for a significant share of the homicides or violent crimes prior to that year. Only 204, or about one in 1,000 of the returned firearms, were automatic weapons. A 2003 study (Reuter and Mouzos, 2003) estimated that approximately 20 percent of Australia’s firearms were retrieved during the buyback data on the type of firearms returned are lacking, but for one state (Victoria), nearly half of those turned in were rimfires (pea rifles), and the rest were almost all shotguns. As of August 2001, Australia had purchased back 659,940 newly prohibited firearms (i.e., semiautomatic and pump action rifles and shotguns), and during a second buyback in 2003, 68,727 handguns were destroyed (Chapman, Alpers, and Jones, 2016). The federal 12-month amnesty (the compensatory buyback scheme) occurred between October 1, 1996, and September 30, 1997, but four states (New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania) extended the amnesty longer.
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