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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern led the charge to ban semi-automatic rifles immediately after a mass shooting earlier this year. (Photo: Jacinda Ardern Facebook) <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The gun buyback program in New Zealand is not progressing as officials had hoped. After the county\u2019s parliament banned most semi-automatic weapons in the wake of a deadly massacre, less than one percent of the now-prohibited firearms have been turned in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Zealand gun owners were not required to register AR-type rifles prior to the ban, so law enforcement officers aren\u2019t sure precisely how many \u201cmilitary-style semi-automatic weapons\u201d need to be turned in. But police told<\/a> New Zealand radio host Ryan Bridge that \u201cprobably hundreds of thousands\u201d of guns are now prohibited, and the Washington Post reported<\/a> this week that only 700 firearms have been voluntarily surrendered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given that authorities estimate there are 1.2 million\nto 1.5 million firearms of any type in the country, total compliance to\nthe law passed in April likely stands somewhere between 0.7% and 0.1%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe urge people to stay calm,\u201d Mike Clement, New Zealand\nPolice\u2019s deputy commissioner of national operations, told The Washington Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe acknowledge that you\u2019re a law-abiding citizen and\nthrough no fault of your own you now find yourself in possession of firearms\nthat are now illegal,\u201d he said, but he noted that once the amnesty period\nexpires, there is no excuse for holding on to weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philippa Yasbek, co-founder of Gun Control NZ, put a finer\npoint on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese weapons are unlikely to be confiscated by police\nbecause they don\u2019t know of their existence,\u201d she told the Post. \u201cThese will\nbecome black-market weapons if their owners choose not to comply with the law\nand become criminals instead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: David Hogg Praises New Zealand Gun Ban, Chides U.S. Government \u2018Owned\u2019 By Gun Makers<\/a> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Paul Clark, owner of New Zealand Ammunition, said he believes\nthis is precisely what will happen. He told Radio New Zealand journalist Lisa\nOwen that many owners will attempt to hide their weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If owners are not allowed to make their case through the\njustice system, he added, \u201cthe only alternative is revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked to clarify what he meant, he replied, \u201cLiterally, what\nI just said.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others seem to be waiting to see if the compensation price will rise. While the government says it has set the buyback value at 95 percent of the estimated base price for new or nearly new firearms, one gun owner claims the price is far too low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Post reports that gun collector, hunter, and competitive shooter David Craze is considering a lawsuit seeking proper compensation for \u201cproperty confiscation.\u201d He claims that he will only receive 30 percent of the value of the firearms he will be required to turn in under the new law and that some of these firearms he had been relying on to fund his retirement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials hope the compliance rate will rise as local\ncommunities hold nearly 200 gun collection events over the next three months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: New Zealand Gangs: \u2018No,\u2019 We Won\u2019t Get Rid of Our Guns<\/a> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The efficacy of buyback programs to reduce crime and mass shootings is anything but certain. Dr. Samara McPhedran from Griffith University in Australia told radio host Ryan Bridge that the buyback program Australia conducted in the late 1990s and early 2000s didn\u2019t produce the results officials had hoped for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The reality is, from what we’ve learned from Australia\nand a number of other countries, is that buyback programs don’t do what we had\nhoped for public health and safety outcomes,” McPhedran said. “The\npeople that tend to hand in guns aren’t the high-risk people who tend to be\ninvolved with firearm violence.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn terms of delivering value for money with outcomes,\nbuyback programs are generally not regarded as an effective way to reduce gun\nviolence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the oft-cited drop in the frequency of Australia\u2019s mass casualty events can\u2019t be attributed to the buyback. McPhedran pointed out that while it\u2019s true mass murders dropped after the government confiscated millions of firearms, these events had been just as low in the decades prior to 1986. The ten-year period that saw several high-profile mass killings was an anomaly in a country with both relatively high rates of gun ownership and low rates of violent crime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHeadline-grabbing programs like buybacks may sound good and\nmay make people feel good, but they\u2019re not able to address the very complex\nsocial and economic contributors to crime and violence,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ineffectiveness of gun control schemes isn\u2019t stopping anti-gun advocates in New Zealand. Yasbek believes the government should pile on even more restrictive policies like a mandatory gun register, records of all ammunition sales, and the disabling of the semiautomatic firearms that remain legal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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