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More than 50k guns surrendered in Australia; to be destroyed

Sydney, Oct 6 (UNI) Australia has plans to destroy more than 50,000 firearms which were handed over to the Government authorities during the three-month-long national firearms amnesty.
The final figures, released today showed that the number of surrendered firearms doubled in the final month of the amnesty from 25,999 to 51,461 by 30 September, a report in The Guardian today said.
Almost half were surrendered in New South Wales, which received 24,965 firearms despite collecting a further 67,323 in three other gun amnesties since the first national one in 1996.
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