“Well, the government didn’t ‘confiscate and ban guns years ago’. That’s a myth spread by certain American gun rights groups”...
BS
“A significant number of guns (600,000) were voluntarily sold by their owners to the government for a fair market value in the late 1990s
More BS....
tell you what... to make sure you all know what your reading as “knowledgeable fact”
I call F’N BS to the whole posting... it is a prefabricated.... “millions of Jews were not killed in concentration camps” fabrication...
ANYONE, who wants to believe this mis-information... come speak with Me....
“voluntarily” sold..... HUGE BS statement....
Back your statements with facts...... not propaganda.... this is the Communist Labor Party re-writing history.
bring it on... your in My sand box now.... and I am the Red Back Spider...
EL
BTTT
No, it isn't. It really isn't. But I don't know how to convince somebody who simply seems to dismiss things in such a simplistic fashion.
I have discussed this possibly hundreds of times on this forum in the past at times in some detail, explaining exactly what happened. But I'm not going to bother doing so again, when I come up against this type of attitude.
What I will say is simple. I own a semi-automatic rifle. I own a couple of handguns. I also have number of .22s but they don't really count. I do this entirely legally. They are currently sitting less than twenty metres from me in my house in suburban Melbourne - totally legally. I have a C category licence which I acquired in the normal way, and a handgun licence which I acquired in the normal way.
Law abiding Australians can own guns. It's pretty trivial to own an A/B longarm (which is why I said above they don't really count in my opinion) and it's entirely possible to own more than that with some effort.
I really don't like our handgun laws - they meant I only had a small choice of handguns that met all the criteria for a non-prohibited category licence (I probably could get a prohibited licence, I think, but have decided not to try).
Back your statements with facts...... not propaganda.... this is the Communist Labor Party re-writing history.
Why would the Labor Party rewrite history? They generally like what happened in the late 1990s and think it didn't go far enough.
I am - and was - a member of the Liberal Party. I was one of many gunowners who worked within the party (and importantly within the National Party) to limit what John Howard (who never understood guns) would have, at least initially, liked to accomplish. We're the reason why the 'reasons to own' category is as broad it is for many firearms. We're the reason why, in some states, Police Commissioners have so much discretion to licence people even when a strict reading of the law suggests they shouldn't be. We're the ones who have recently had gun laws relaxed in Victoria (nowhere near enough on that point yet, but it was very important to some target shooters that we get a partial solution this year rather than a better solution in two years time (which we still hope to get) and there are similar moves afoot in New South Wales and Queensland to my knowledge (and it should be easier there - Victoria still has only a very marginal coalition government).