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The short answer: No, classical mechanics is not recovered in the $\hbar \rightarrow 0$ limit of quantum mechanics.

The paper What is the limit $\hbar \rightarrow 0$ of quantum theory? (Accepted for publication in the American Journal of Physics) shows that Schrödinger's equation for a single particle moving in an external potential does not lead to Newton's equation of motion for the particle in the general case. Page 9 of this more recent article precisely deals with the question of why no wavefunction in the Hilbert space can give a classical delta function probability.

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