Call For Arms Brings Results In Australia AKA Guns Handed In Are Melted Down (1965)

Unissued / unused material - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. Australian newsreel item. Title reads: “Melted Down: Hot Guns Get Really Hot“ Alexandria and Sydney, New South Wales, Australia MS Full screen, an array of guns and pistols, some of the 830 handed in during a six-month New South Wales police amnesty. Various CUs, handguns. Various shots, a police officer handling the guns. MS Crate full of labelled guns ready for destruction. Various shots, workers shovels the guns into a furnace in Alexandria, under police supervision. They are melted down and used for making train wheels etc. Note: Date on original record: 27/06/1965. Australian commentary. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, wh