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2005-03-06 Afghanistan/South Asia

Government to seize heavy weapons not surrendered by tribesmen

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Posted by Fred 2005-03-06 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I always thought these buy back programs were a joke. They must work - cause they keep doing them. Maybe the people who turn them in are they type of people that - when in need of money - would be just as happy to sell them to criminals as to sell them to the police. In that light, you'd put a crimp in the supply.

Posted by 2b 2005-03-06 8:32:31 AM|| 2005-03-06 8:32:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 What do the governments do with them when they buy them at coercive prices? Melt them down? right. I suspect they give them to friends, resell them at a profit or if they do melt them down, they get a rebate from the gun manufacturers association.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-06 8:57:22 AM|| 2005-03-06 8:57:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "Mahmoud! Fetch me my new Kalishnakov!"

Posted by Raj 2005-03-06 11:09:12 AM|| 2005-03-06 11:09:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 "You'll take my Vickers 1912 Machine Gun away from me and me mates over my dead body! Come and get me, coppers!"

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-06 12:57:38 PM|| 2005-03-06 12:57:38 PM|| Front Page Top

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