Rebecca Peters

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Rebecca Peters is the Director^[1] of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA). As chair of the (Australian) National Coalition for Gun Control at the time of the Port Arthur Massacre in 1996, Peters played a key role in the introduction of stricter gun control and gun confiscation, in Australia, an area in which she remains active today.

The Umut Foundation says:

Rebecca Peters was Chair of the National Coalition for Gun Control, which campaigned to tighten Australia's gun laws in the 1990s. Her research and advocacy helped bring about sweeping changes, including uniform gun laws across the eight states, a ban on semiautomatic rifles and shotguns, and a year-long buyback that destroyed nearly 700,000 weapons. Among the awards she received was the 1996 Australian Human Rights Medal, her country's highest human rights honor.^[2]

Prior to her work with IANSA, Peters worked for the Open Society Institute, a private foundation funded by George Soros.

"The most expensive kind of gun violence, is gun violence" -Rebecca Peters, 'Great Gun Debate'

She has been criticized by the National Rifle Association in the United States, which maintains that she, along with the United Nations, wishes to "strip all citizens of all nations of their right to self-protection" via gun-ownership by "ban[ning] civilian ownership of firearms".[3][4] The UN maintains that it has no desire to attempt to outlaw gun ownership in any country.[5]