In these here United States, 41 of 50 States shall issue a permit to carry a concealed handgun to any non-felon adult who asks. Three States require no permit at all. In most States, one may carry a handgun openly without any paperwork whatsoever. In almost all States, one may purchase any sort or rifle, pistol, or shotgun without asking the government's permission at all.
I'm really getting rather sick of people misrepresenting Australian gun laws
Please quit blowing smoke at us. Australian gun laws are atrocious ... by your own admission.
It's your country ... wreck it any way you like. We're doing our level best to destroy America with 0bama and his cronies. You'd be well advised to start repealing your gun control regime, though.
I'm not blowing smoke. I'm telling the truth. Yes, Australian gun laws are pretty bad (I wouldn't say atrocious - I'd say stupid and wrongheaded, but as somebody who spends a few months a year in the UK, I'd reserve stronger terms for them - and even there guns aren't completely banned) but that is not an excuse for people to lie about them being worse than they are. And what makes it worse is that honest people believe and repeat the lies.
I've had to make some effort to own the guns I do. Having made that effort I object to being told I have been disarmed.
And incidentally people try to use lies like that against the interest of gun owners in America - I've seen regular attempts by gun control groups in America to claim that Australia banned guns and America could do the same.
You'd be well advised to start repealing your gun control regime, though.
That's what some of us are trying to do - and it's one reason I really object to misinformation about our laws being spread around. It's slow going, but we are gradually getting governments here to roll back parts of the laws but we're doing it through rational fact-based arguments.
When people believe that the only people who own handguns are criminals or security guards, it's much harder to make the case to them that handguns in the hands of law abiding citizens aren't a public danger, than if it's already understood that there are already tens of thousands of us out there and we're not committing crimes. I've been in meetings with Members of Parliament where I've had to explain the laws to them because they believed what they'd been told by the anti-gun lobby and it was easy to believe because it's what is repeated all the time.