[naturalman1975]

There are likely more guns legally held in private hands in Australia now than at any time in our history.

Americans have been spoon fed quite a lot of nonsense about Australia. Personally, I think it’s communist China behind most of it - attempting to split an alliance they don’t like.

Australians get fed a lot of nonsense about the US as well.

Unfortunately, it often seems to be working.

[cgbg]

This is not Chinese propaganda:

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/careers-subsite/files/lgbtiq-action-plan-2019-22.pdf

or this:

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/20220622_01.aspx

Obviously I could provide many such links for the US as well.

The Chinese do not have to make up propaganda—the rot in both countries is very real.

[Responsibility2nd]

Google ses......

3.5 million
The total number of registered firearms in Australia currently sits at a record 3,994,891, up from the last time figures were publicly revealed in 2021, which showed just over 3.5 million registered guns. In 2012, the Australian Crime Commission reported that there were 2.75 million registered guns in the country.Nov 22, 2023

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As of August 2001, Australia had purchased back 659,940 newly prohibited firearms (i.e., semiautomatic and pump action rifles and shotguns), and during a second buyback in 2003, 68,727 handguns were destroyed (Chapman, Alpers, and Jones, 2016)

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In 1997, the year after the Port Arthur massacre, Australia had 6.52 licensed firearm owners per 100 population. By 2020, that proportion had almost halved, to 3.41 licensed gun owners for every 100 people.

[Inyo-Mono]

Americans have been spoon fed quite a lot of nonsense about Australia.

I agree, I'm on a couple of gun forums here in the USA, and there are several gun owning Aussies that are members.