A giant magnet picks up prohibited firearms at a scrap-metal yard in Sydney July 29. The guns were p.....
A giant magnet picks up prohibited firearms at a scrap-metal yard in Sydney July 29. The guns were put through a shredder and destroyed after they were handed in under the Australian government's buy-back scheme. A total of 470,000 guns have been collected nationally, with owners receiving A$243 million (US$180 million) in compensation. The scheme was set-up due to tighter gun laws brought in after the April 1996 Port Arthur massacre in which 35 people died when a lone gunman went on a shooting rampage.