[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#63: In the photo of the Australian gun buyback, I see junk, museum pieces, single shot shotguns, bolt action varmint shooters, and some multiple load shotguns. No handguns. No AK’s. NO SKS’s. No M16’s. No Bren guns.

Australia has a much more homogeneous population which makes it easier to control, like in Japan. Also, it doesn’t have the social problems we do re criminal/drug/ethnic gangs, lots of drug-added wackos, occult believers, and doomsday cults (Heavens Gate, Jonestown (Marxist), Branch Dravidians/Waco); White supremacists, black supremacists, Hispanic irredentists, and at one time the American Indian Movement -aided and abetted by Cuba and Moscow.

Oh, I forgot our latest import, Islamic jihadists and their domestic recruits.

We have some serious problems and until they are addressed and realistically resolved, personal ownership of a gun/weapon is going to be a fact of life. We have family and friends to protect, esp. our children.

Otherwise, under Cuomo/Feinstein, it will become a country of blackmarket weapons and shootouts. If that is what they want in order to seize control of American citizen rights, then they have destroyed the Constitution.

As POGO once said, “We have seen the enemy and it is us!”

[Drew68]

#63: In the photo of the Australian gun buyback, I see junk, museum pieces, single shot shotguns, bolt action varmint shooters, and some multiple load shotguns. No handguns. No AK’s. NO SKS’s. No M16’s. No Bren guns.

>And most of those are just ordinary hunting rifles.<

Yes, clearly many of the weapons in that 1997 photo were not banned under Australia's gun ban. Makes me wonder if a lot of folks used the buyback as a lucrative way to cash in on some of the junk guns they had rusting away in their closets?

[Fred Nerks]

...Australia has a much more homogeneous population which makes it easier to control, like in Japan. Also, it doesn’t have the social problems we do re criminal/drug/ethnic gangs, lots of drug-added wackos, occult believers, and doomsday cults (Heavens Gate, Jonestown (Marxist), Branch Dravidians/Waco); White supremacists, black supremacists, Hispanic irredentists, and at one time the American Indian Movement -aided and abetted by Cuba and Moscow.

I was thinking about all that, but didn't want to bring it up and hurt your feelings...

Oh, I forgot our latest import, Islamic jihadists and their domestic recruits.

We do have a few of those, but how lucky are we...they appear to be using them on each other in small-time drug wars and shooting at each other...and at the odd police-station windows.

[going hot]

There is an AR at 3 oclock and what appears to be either an M1 or an M1a at 6 oclock.

[going hot]

but out of 650K, your point stands.

[USAF80]

You also forgot that Australia is surrounded by water. We have two open borders one each end. The Rio Grande is not much of an obstacle.