What is the Australia solution? A simple explanation is offered at the
UK Guardian, which is brought up in the wake of Las Vegas to say that the gun grabbyness is being eroded in Australia
In 1996 politicians managed to come to a bipartisan
agreement to change our gun laws. The main changes included: a ban on
semi-automatic rifles and pump action shotguns, a gun buyback, the
introduction of a uniform registration and licensing system and an
acknowledgment that gun ownership is a privilege and not a right. These
laws were implemented into each state and territory legislation which
implemented a national approach to gun regulation.
So, not everything. This
article from 2016 explains in depth who can own which guns of those that are still legal.
It’s actually not that hard to own a gun. But you do have
to have a genuine reason. You have to be a member of a target shooting
club or a hunter and you have to prove it. For hunting, you can get
written permission from a landowner who says you are hunting on his
land. Or you can join a hunting club. Pistols [handguns], on the other
hand, are heavily restricted. All applicants undergo a background check
by the police and there is a mandatory 30 day cooling off period for all
license applications, both long arms and pistols. Firearms safety
training courses are mandatory as well.
There are 6 classes of license, which also includes if you want an
air rifle. Yeah, that would be a BB gun. You want a handgun? There’s a
license for that. H license. You must compete in at least 8 competitions
to keep it. It’s a competition license. “
This firearm
may be a single-shot air pistol, a single-shot .22-calibre pistol or a
.22-calibre revolver or self-loading pistol.” As far as I can determine
through multiple articles, those are the only ones allowed. There is no
category for “protect myself from criminals” licenses.
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When our founding fathers secured the Constitutional “right of the people to keep and bear arms,” they also added the admonition that this right SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.
It is the only time this phrase appears in the Bill of Rights. So why aren’t more people listening?
History has proven that guns are essential to self-defense and liberty—but tragedy is a powerful force and has led many to believe that guns are the enemy, that the Second Amendment is outdated, and that more restrictions or outright bans on firearms will somehow solve everything.
They are wrong.
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