We have Australians on this forum who claim that it's not really all THAT hard to get "prohibited" weapons.
Then we have the Prime Minister say this ...
Hmmmm ...
Then we have the Prime Minister say this ...
A wet centrist Prime Minister (albeit one from a broadly conservative party) who wants people to think it's harder to get guns than it is.
Having said that, he's more or less right given what is being described in the press. The firearms I've seen mentioned as being used in Las Vegas would be Category D or E under Australian firearms law, and it is difficult for the average Australian to get a D licence and almost impossible to get an E licence, unless they are working in a field that specifically requires them.
But you can still own a reasonably wide range of semi-automatics (as long as they have a magazine capacity of 10 or less rounds) on a C licence and that isn't that hard to get.
“Prohibited weapons” generally fall outside the neat letter based categories in some way, and that term often doesn’t mean what it says because of that. Whether a “prohibited weapon” is legal or not, generally depends on whether a specific exemption has been made for that specific weapon or class of weapons. Some exemptions are fairly broad. Some are very narrow.