[JDoutrider]

"There are schools here that would object to me as a teacher because I own and shoot firearms and I hunt.

I thought your government down there demasculanized and disarmed ya'll???

Has something changed?

[naturalman1975]

No, Australian gun laws aren't anywhere as bad as they are presented overseas. It's actually very easy to own basic longarms, and it's not that hard to own semi-autos and similar or hand guns. It starts to get pretty difficult if you want to own some sort of machine gun, but anything short of that isn't too bad.

We do have universal registration and the storage requirements for more powerful firearms are pretty strict, but it's perfectly possible to own a gun if you haven't got a criminal record. There's probably around five to seven million legally held private firearms in Australia, and that's not that bad for a country of only twenty million people.