This grandma isn’t just knitting booties for her granddaughter or eating Worther’s Originals while Bill waxes about the days in the White House in his well-worn cardigan.

Hillary Clinton is on a mission.

She appeared at a town hall meeting today in Keene, New Hampshire and a voter asked her for her opinion of Australia’s gun buyback confiscation program in the 1990s.

“Recently, Australia managed to take away tens of thousands — millions — of handguns. And in one year, they were all gone. Can we do that if not, why can’t we?” the man asked while Hillary nodded her head affirmatively.

She responded, “You know, Australia’s a good example, Canada’s a good example, the UK is a good example. Why? Because each of them had mass killings. Australia had a huge mass killing about 20-25 years ago. Canada did as well — so did the UK. And in reaction, they passed much stricter gun laws.

“In the Australian example, as I recall, that was a buyback program. The Australian government, as part of trying to clamp down on the availability of automatic weapons offered a good price for buying hundreds of thousands of guns and then they basically clamped down going forward. …

“By offering to buy back those guns, they were able to curtail the supply and set a different standard for gun purchases in the future. Now, communities have done that in our country. Several communities have done gun buyback programs. But I think it would be worth considering doing it on the national level that could be arranged. …

Clinton then proposed a “cash for clunkers”-style program wherein the federal government to incentivize Americans to turn over their arms.

“I think that’s worth considering.”

But as The Federalist points out, the dirty little secret of the Australian program was that it wasn’t voluntary. Indeed, it was outright confiscation. It reports:

The crucial fact they omit is that the buyback program was mandatory. Australia’s vaunted gun buyback program was in fact a sweeping program of gun confiscation. Only the articles from USA Today and the Washington Post cited above contain the crucial information that the buyback was compulsory.

The article by Smith-Spark, the latest entry in the genre, assuredly does not. It’s the most important detail about the main provision of Australia’s gun laws, and pundits ignore it. That’s like writing an article about how Obamacare works without once mentioning the individual mandate.

But Hillary believe it’s worth considering in America.