Clinton suggests she'd consider mandatory gun buy-backs, sparking fears of ‘confiscation’

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

Hillary Clinton said Friday that mandatory gun buy-back programs like ones in Australia are “worth looking into,” sparking criticism that the Democratic presidential front-runner would, if elected, impose gun-confiscation efforts.

 

Clinton made the comments during a campaign stop in Keene, N.H., when an attendee asked about Australia’s 1996 and 2003 buy-back programs that collected roughly 700,000 banned semi-automatic rifles and other firearms.

 

“I think it would be worth considering doing it on the national level, if that could be arranged,” Clinton responded.

 

“This validates what the NRA has said all along,” said Chris Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action. “The real goal of gun control supporters is gun confiscation.”

 

Cox said Clinton’s comments echo recent ones by President Obama, making “very clear” that the underlying goal of gun-control advocates is confiscation.

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Pew: Homicide Rates Cut in Half Over Past 20 Years (While New Gun Ownership Soared)

OCTOBER 27, 2015Ryan McMaken

The Pew Research Center reported last week that the murder rate was cut nearly in half from 7 per 100,000 in 1993 to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2013. Over the same period,...

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