Question from an Ignorant American to Aussie/NZ Pedes. Why is it so bad down there compared to everywhere else?
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Seriously, I'm rather ignorant of the oceanic Anglosphere countries. Never had much interest in them besides possibly visiting in the future for vacation or a hunting trip. (Love my semi auto cordless hole punchers too much.) So why is it so bad down there, but not say the UK? Or Canada? I mean, all four countries have very similar politics and culture from my understanding, well Canada is a bit more gun friendly until recently as far as I know, but that's about it.
So why have Australia and New Zealand seemingly gone full Nazi, while all the other Anglosphere countries are pretty mild all things considered?
They took away all the people's guns.
That's one of the few things I know that's a misconception. If I'm not mistaken, in terms of largest number of guns, the Anglosphere countries are ranked as such. USA (obviously), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa (Didn't include them in the original list since they have A LOT of problems unique to their country that doesn't apply to the other anglosphere countries), and the finally the UK.
As I mentioned above I had a mild interest in going to New Zealand or Australia for a hunting trip before all of this crap happened. So I've researched the gun laws pretty thoroughly in order to avoid any hang ups, misunderstandings, or otherwise political horse crap when navigating as an armed foreigner.
Believe it or not, Australia has a lot of guns. Mostly bolts, pumps, and lever actions, but a lot of guns none the less. They just gave up autoloaders. They can actually own pistols as well, unlike the UK.
New Zealand was even better until a few years ago when they had that false flag shooting. They could own literally anything without limit. Very similar to the USA. But then they had that false flag so the government banned semi autos. The key difference between between the two nations is that New Zealand didn't require firearms to be registered, so when they banned semi autos, literally no one turned their guns in. So there are still hundreds of thousands of armed New Zealanders with AR 15s, AKs, etc. EXACTLY like what we have here in the US.
Hence, my question, as to why it's so bad down there as compared to the UK, where they have truly cucked gun laws where you're basically only allowed to own break actions and bolt/lever actions that "don't shoot too fast" according to politicians.