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Australia. 2017 ‘Outcomes - Total Number of Firearms by Reason.’ National Firearms Amnesty Report 2017, p. 7. Canberra: Australian Government. 1 December

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Total number of firearms by reason

States and territories allowed items to be handed in for registration, or sale, or destruction, or a combination of these options (see Attachment A for further details). The following table details the number of firearms handed in under each category.

Table 3:

Jurisdiction: Registration - Sale - Destruction
Australian Capital Territory: 65 - 0 - 634
New South Wales: 14,745 - 2,111 - 7,975
Northern Territory: 171 - 0 - 176
Queensland: 12,922 - 0 - 3,453
South Australia: 335 - 0 - 2,490
Tasmania: 75 - 27 - 1,728
Victoria: 4,569* - 1,968** - 2,638***
Western Australia: 162 - 0 - 1080

Total: 33,044 - 4,106 - 20,174

*Registered firearms were those that had been surrendered under the Amnesty and not transferred to another licence holder or destroyed at the time of compiling data
**Sold firearms were those that had been surrendered under the Amnesty and transferred to a category of licence other than a firearm dealer's licence at the time of compiling data
***Destroyed firearms were those that had been confirmed as already destroyed by the Ballistics Unit at the time of compiling data

ID: Q13281

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