Mr Iddles said Melbourne's northwest suburbs were a particular hotspot, with a 300 percent rise in firearm discoveries and offences in the past five years.
I'd be willing to bet that these "illegal firearm discoveries" are taking place amongst the honest citizens, and not the criminal class. This is an ongoing process to disarm the people, so as to make them easier marks for their criminal and political overloards.
And you'd be wrong.
Honest citizens have gun licences. They are not hard to get. Whether we should have to get them or not is another question, entirely, but we can and we do.
An illegal firearm is nearly always a firearm in the hands of a criminal, and the fact that there are so many is proof that the laws don't accomplish much really in stopping criminals from having guns.