We've never had a right to bare arms in our constitution
It allowed people to either uphold their new licensing requirements and keep their firearms or sell them to the government. Guns were not banned - firearms were re-categorised and licensing requirements were changed basically to require a reason for having it, like for sport shooting, or recreation shooting if you own land.
What our gun law changes did, after the Martin Bryant Port Arthur massacre (knee-jerk change, yes, and there are too many restrictions for my liking) is reduce the likelihood that a moron will get his hands on a gun and go nuts with it.
I can't speak for other states in Australia but these are the gun laws/restrictions in the state of Queensland.
http://www.police.qld.gov.au/programs/weaponsLicensing/
I can't speak for other states in Australia but these are the gun laws/restrictions in the state of Queensland.
i just spent 20 minutes typing up a big reply and lost it while this site was doing maintenance.
anyways heres the short version.
here in Oz we cannot use self defence as a legitimate excuse to own a firearm.
in my state it took me 10 months to gain my firearms licence. this only allows me the use of rimfire and centrefire (this state has just banned the .338 lapua).
handgun ownership requires more training and certification and permission is only given for club based target shooting.
please dont allow your country to follow us as it appears in the media.
here are some government stats if your interested:
http://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/homicide.html
im happy to answer any questions you may have.
Are you saying that the report that they took all of those guns is not true??? Why did we the USA have to give guns to you"ll when WW11 broke out to save you'll?? You all had gun till they told you all to turn them in.What gun ban? - I have four handguns and my dad's 243 and double-barrel 12-gauge, all legally owned. The branch of the SSAA that I am a member of (Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (note - you spelt the name of my country wrong.......)) has over thirty thousand members. This is only sporting shooters at that branch of that club, and doesn't include all the primary producers / rural land owners / armed security and police. Keep in mind our population is 1/10th of the USA.
We've never had a right to bare arms in our constitution and gun culture here was never and still isn't the same as in the USA.
What our gun law changes did, after the Martin Bryant Port Arthur massacre (knee-jerk change, yes, and there are too many restrictions for my liking) is reduce the likelihood that a moron will get his hands on a gun and go nuts with it. It allowed people to either uphold their new licensing requirements and keep their firearms or sell them to the government. Guns were not banned - firearms were re-categorised and licensing requirements were changed basically to require a reason for having it, like for sport shooting, or recreation shooting if you own land.
Neither have we, but there are few areas within the US that prohibit the wearing of sleeveless shirts. Pretty sure they're OK "down under" as well..
I may be incorrect, but wasn't it the decree of some health minister in AU whereby handguns owners had a certain amount of time to give up their handguns? If I lived in Perth, can I just go to a gun shop and but a semi-auto pistol?
Are you saying that the report that they took all of those guns is not true??? Why did we the USA have to give guns to you"ll when WW11 broke out to save you'll?? You all had gun till they told you all to turn them in.