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Young People Represent the Majority of Deaths by Firearms - Buyback

Son jóvenes la mayoría de los muertos con armas de fuego

Los Andes (Argentina)

31 August 2011

By Ignacio de la Rosa

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…Actualmente, en el país está en marcha la segunda etapa del programa nacional de entrega voluntaria de armas de fuego, que consiste en la entrega voluntaria y anónima de armas de fuego y municiones a cambio de diez centavos por cada munición y de entre 200 y 600 pesos para las armas de fuego, dependiendo de su calibre. Una vez recibidas, las armas son inmediatamente inutilizadas y destruidas.

Según destacan los investigadores, "en su primera etapa, ejecutada en los años 2007 y 2008 el plan permitió recolectar 107.761 armas y 774.500 municiones a nivel nacional. De tal forma, habría en parte permitido, según una investigación realizada por APP para el BID, que los suicidios con armas de fuego en Argentina se redujeran 21% y los suicidios 4%".

[Note: APP = Asociación para Políticas Públicas]

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…Currently Argentina is launching the second phase of its National Programme for the voluntary surrender of firearms. This consists of a voluntary and anonymous surrender of firearms and ammunition in exchange for ten cents per round of ammunition and between 200 and 600 pesos per firearm, depending on its calibre. Once collected, the firearms are immediately made unusable and destroyed.

According to the researchers, "in its first phase, carried out in 2007 and 2008, the programme allowed us to collect 107,761 firearms and 774,500 rounds of ammunition throughout the nation. Thus it would have partly involved, according to research conducted by APP for the IDB, in a 21% reduction of gun suicide in Argentina, and a 4% reduction in other type of suicide."

[Note: APP = Association for Public Policy]

ID: N263

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