[naturalman1975]

Posted largely because of the number of times I've found myself responding on FR to Americans who have, in good faith, believed the lies that guns are banned in Australia.

It's not their fault they believe it - it's a widely propagated lie which has, at times, convinced generally credible sources that others trust and repeat.

But it isn't true, no matter how much anti-gun groups want it to be true.

That's not to say we don't have some overly restrictive and even downright stupid laws and controls on guns in Australia - we do. But they're a long way from being banned, and we're a long way from being disarmed.

[Sybeck1]

They know how many they have, which is terrible

[Ancesthntr]

The idea that there should be limits on the number of guns one owns is absurd. It is extremely unusual for even a gifted gun owner to be able to use 2 guns well at the same time. 3 or more is physically impossible, so it doesn’t matter if you own 2, 10, 50 or 1,000 - you can only use 2 at a time at most, and much more likely 1 at a time.

Quite clearly, gun grabbers don’t know Shiite from Shinola...as they’ve demonstrated repeatedly over the years. Being down under doesn’t help any, either.

[Charles Martel]

I noticed “scores of semi-automatic rifles” mentioned in the source article. Is this more a reference to “occupational shooters” or people who own deactivated firearms of this category?

[Zeppelin]

Thanks for posting, very interesting.

Funny thing is, much of the younger generation here in Oz believe the same...

[SnuffaBolshevik]

I get where you’re coming from, naturalman.

But I still remember a picture of a beautiful old Browning 12 gauge Auto-5 being cut to pieces with a bandsaw down there.

Almost brought a tear to my eye. As recompense, I bought one for myself.

[Vendome]

And Imelda Marcos had a battery of shoes ....

Just stupid.

[Paine in the Neck]

Just checking in to see if this was Victoria, TX.

VICTORIA's top firearms owners have collected an average arsenal of [only]80 weapons each...

I guess not.

[ken5050]

I read the headline, and I had this image of an old Victorian house, with the latticework below the porch railing used as gun ports for hundreds of rifles sticking out....sort of like a giant, armed, porcupine house..

[SW6906]

See my tagline.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I’m not certain how many I have, but I sure as hell don’t want the government to know.

[marktwain]

I read the article. I did not see any reason to limit the number of firearms that one person could own, other than the opinion of an anti-freedom spokesman that it was “absurd”.

Did anyone give any rational reason to limit the number of firearms owned?

It seems to clearly be a case of “I do not like it, therefore there should be a law against it.”