A lot of Australians still have firearms. At present there are approximately 3.2 million registered firearms. The majority are bolt action and lever action.
Semi automatic rifles are allowed for use by farmers and professional shooters for pest destruction, ie pigs,roos,wild dogs ect.
There are also estimated to be between 1.5 million to over 4 million unregistered firearms,many of them are semi automatics.
The reason for the discrepancy in the number of unregistered firearms is due to the lack of adequate records before registration started in New South Wales and Victoria in 1986 and the other States in 1996.
The Australian Authorities know this and they realise there is nothing they can really do about it. The fact that after all this time after firearm registration was introduced and the unregistered firearms owned by law abiding people rarely if ever are used in the commission of crime allows the Authorities to keep up the pretence that firearm control works.
This keeps the firearm control zealots happy in their ignorance.
The people that use Australia as an example that the US should follow are being very dishonest in an attempt to deceive Americans into accepting gun control.
Wear and tear would eventually be a problem. Usually the people that own these unregistered firearms maintain them sufficiently.
Often they also have multiple firearms of the same or similar type.
A good example is the SKS rifle. I suppose the US was similar to Australia. In the 1970s to the early 1990s in Australia, the SKS was a cheap,value for money firearm.
Especially the Chinese Norinco manufactured SKS. These firearms flooded into the country.
When New South Wales and Victoria banned semi automatic firearms in 1986, people in the other States bought semi automatic firearms in large numbers, especially the SKS rifles (excellent for wild pigs ect)
Approximately 350,000 SKS rifles were sold in Queensland. The numbers sold in the other States was really unknown because records weren't necessary.
With the Federal Government firearm buy back in 1996, they only got 290,000 SKS rifles handed in across the entire Nation!
The number of other types semi automatics is completely unknown.
Firearm control and bans don't really work. The Authorities don't have the manpower or money to try to track suspected firearm offenders.
Aside from the penalty, shipping components for most rifles is relatively easy. Take the humble AR, the rifles can be shipped with pipes, the springs and internals in almost any other package, the Lower can be smuggled in with assorted gears, or for that matter likely shipped inside of tins of cookies.
If you can ship tons of Coke, and other drugs - shipping guns is a non-issue.
I agree. The Authorities have a major problem stopping drugs from being imported, or stolen vehicles like 4x4s being exported for the use of terrorist groups like ISIS.
The big issue in Australia is the amount of hand guns coming in illegally.
Australia has a lot of American vehicles and parts being imported.
It's a good way to import other metallic items like firearm parts.
A lot of Australians still have firearms. At present there are approximately 3.2 million registered firearms. The majority are bolt action and lever action. Semi automatic rifles are allowed for use by farmers and professional shooters for pest destruction, ie pigs,roos,wild dogs ect.
There are also estimated to be between 1.5 million to over 4 million unregistered firearms,many of them are semi automatics.
The reason for the discrepancy in the number of unregistered firearms is due to the lack of adequate records before registration started in New South Wales and Victoria in 1986 and the other States in 1996.
The Australian Authorities know this and they realise there is nothing they can really do about it. The fact that after all this time after firearm registration was introduced and the unregistered firearms owned by law abiding people rarely if ever are used in the commission of crime allows the Authorities to keep up the pretence that firearm control works.
This keeps the firearm control zealots happy in their ignorance.
The people that use Australia as an example that the US should follow are being very dishonest in an attempt to deceive Americans into accepting gun control.
With enough time, maintenance and repair become serious problems. Is it still possible to get spare parts for unregistered weapons?
Wear and tear would eventually be a problem. Usually the people that own these unregistered firearms maintain them sufficiently.
Often they also have multiple firearms of the same or similar type.
A good example is the SKS rifle. I suppose the US was similar to Australia. In the 1970s to the early 1990s in Australia, the SKS was a cheap,value for money firearm. Especially the Chinese Norinco manufactured SKS. These firearms flooded into the country.
When New South Wales and Victoria banned semi automatic firearms in 1986, people in the other States bought semi automatic firearms in large numbers, especially the SKS rifles (excellent for wild pigs ect)
Approximately 350,000 SKS rifles were sold in Queensland. The numbers sold in the other States was really unknown because records weren't necessary.
With the Federal Government firearm buy back in 1996, they only got 290,000 SKS rifles handed in across the entire Nation!
The number of other types semi automatics is completely unknown.
Firearm control and bans don't really work. The Authorities don't have the manpower or money to try to track suspected firearm offenders.
Aside from the penalty, shipping components for most rifles is relatively easy. Take the humble AR, the rifles can be shipped with pipes, the springs and internals in almost any other package, the Lower can be smuggled in with assorted gears, or for that matter likely shipped inside of tins of cookies.
If you can ship tons of Coke, and other drugs - shipping guns is a non-issue.
I agree. The Authorities have a major problem stopping drugs from being imported, or stolen vehicles like 4x4s being exported for the use of terrorist groups like ISIS.
The big issue in Australia is the amount of hand guns coming in illegally.
Australia has a lot of American vehicles and parts being imported. It's a good way to import other metallic items like firearm parts.
I have weapons that are over 100 years old still in perfect working condition.
Guns are simple and easy to maintain. Even so, it gets to be an issue.
Dishonesty, from those who want to disarm law abiding free peoples? Noooo waaaayy
Yeah, I agree. That would never happen. We can trust our Governments. They love us and care for us.
Don't they?
Well people always have the best intentions so of course government will too! They would never do something intentionally evil, duh!