Guns were not banned or confiscated in Australia. This is a myth that, for some reason, has gained a huge amount of currency in the US. Australia does have some quite stringent gun control laws (universal licencing, universal registration, for example) but guns are still legal and there are millions of firearms legally held by private citizens.
thanks for the gun info will pass it along...many do think you have lost your guns
Really? Oh that's wonderful news! I am so glad to hear that my friends down there didn't really have to turn in all their class D firearms (all semi-auto and pump action non-rimfire long guns as well as all handguns in meaningful calibers) like they said they did. I must say that I am greatly relieved to hear that it was all in their heads. And to think, they told me that all of you "subjects" were now effectively limited to pre-1890's firearm technology (bolt-actions and break-actions), and only then if you can prove to the government that you have a "genuine reason" to be graced with a permit for registration. Thank you for setting all of us Americans free from the "myths" we hold about the present state of freedom in your Utopian commonwealth. </s>