Posted on 08/20/2017 4:25:50 PM PDT by marktwain
Extremely restrictive firearms laws were imposed on the Australian population in 1996, after the Port Arthur Massacre.
The Australian gun culture is fighting to restore some sanity to firearm law down under. One of the clampdowns put in place in 1996, was to make ownership of .22 rimfire semi-auto rifles so restricted as to be an effective ban.
The combined firearms council of Victoria is calling for the return of their bunny guns. From firearmscouncil.org.au:
The state’s peak political body for Victoria’s shooting organisations is calling on the state government to allow shooters to use 22 self-loading rifles after a 20 year ban.
The Combined Firearms Council of Victoria says it has written to the Premier urging him to reconsider the state’s position in light of shooters’ concerns.
Council President, Bill Paterson, said the move would be entirely reasonable, arguing 22 rifles are in reality, “bunny guns”, and bore no resemblance to military style rifles of the type which led to the ban in 1996.
“For a start the 22 rifle has significantly less firepower than what you find with larger calibres, and it has a very practical use,” he said.
“22s are used for rabbit vermin pest control and allowing the self-loading rifles back, even if limited to 10 shots, would be a great help in controlling vermin numbers without posing any public danger”
He said the ban on self-loading rifles occurred after the shootings in Port Arthur in 1996, in a state which had very few controls over firearms when other states already had effective licensing and limitations.
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I wish them abundant success!
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To this day I find it hard to believe that they were foolish enough to turn in their guns.
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Australia is hysterically antigun. If the populace wanted they could force the politicians to reverse the idiotic bans, but they don’t.
Almost 90 percent of Australians live in urban areas. That is based on a definition that includes “urban” as any town with a population of 1,000 or more!
But only 15.8 million live in cites of more than 200,000. The population of Australia is 24.13 million (2016). So about 2/3 (65.4) percent of Australians live in cities of more than 200,000 people.
By comparison, in the United States, only 20% of the population live in cities of 200,000 or more.
THe problem is that lots of the smaller cites are really parts of metropolitan areas. Over 50% of the U.S. live in Metropolitan areas.
OK what you just stated is that urbanites are inherently anti-gun. Probably true. It still holds that the bulk of Australians are anti-gun.
If the garbage that inhabits NYC has its way we’d all be disarmed and in chains.
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