I am not addressing the possible benefits of stricter gun control laws in the US. I am saying that your claim that Australia-style gun control laws will lead to &#x27;New Orleans style door to door SWAT raids to confiscate&#x27; is hyperbolic, such that people may immediately discard your viewpoints as being unrealistic.<p>I don&#x27;t know where you got your 200K number. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;16&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;australia-gun-laws&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;16&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;australia-gun-laws...</a> says:<p>&gt; In two nationwide, federally funded gun buybacks, plus large-scale voluntary surrenders and state gun amnesties both before and after Port Arthur, Australia collected and destroyed more than a million firearms, perhaps one-third of the national stock. No other nation had attempted anything on this scale.<p>I confirmed this at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;loc.gov&#x2F;law&#x2F;help&#x2F;firearms-control&#x2F;australia.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;loc.gov&#x2F;law&#x2F;help&#x2F;firearms-control&#x2F;australia.php</a> , which says the 1996 buyback collected &quot;More than 640,000 prohibited firearms&quot;, and &quot;there were about 3.25 million guns in Australia prior to the 1996–1997 buyback program&quot;. The 2003 buyback &quot;resulted in about 70,000 handguns&quot; being collected. I don&#x27;t know where the CNN&#x27; &quot;more than a million firearms&quot; comes from, but the numbers I found are still 3x what you give.<p>It&#x27;s also mostly meaningless to compare Australia&#x27;s &quot;200K guns out of circulation&quot; to a total US ownership of 300M guns. Those are two different statistics. It&#x27;s more appropriate to compare the 3 million guns from a then-population of 18 million, to the US ownership; Australia had about 1&#x2F;6th the per capita gun numbers than the US currently has.