But then in fact, they were confiscated. I think they went door to door. Back in the late 60s, Mayor David Dinkins signed the ban and that's exactly what they did. 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. (03:34–03:45)
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