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Firearm Thefts In Australia Top 7,500
3 August 2012
Age (Melbourne)
Criminals have stolen thousands of guns from homes and dealers in Australia over the past eight years, with only a fraction recovered by police within a year, according to a study of organised crime gangs and firearm trafficking.
And police have seized hundreds of semi-automatic rifles (the type of weapon used by the man who murdered 12 people in a Colorado cinema last month) from organised crime gangs such as bikies across the country.
The report, by the Australian... (GunPolicy.org)
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