Then in 1991, New York City also banned another class of weapons and officials used as understand it, an existing database to do the same thing to force confiscation. There's also, I suppose, the example of our Australian friends. In 1996, I think it was, Australia passed the National Firearms Agreement they called it, which as I understand it, restricted gun ownership and mandated the creation of a firearm registry. And then, lo and behold, they went and used that to enforce mandatory buybacks. I seem to recall more than one Democratic candidate for president talking about mandatory buybacks. (03:48–03:59)
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