AHC: Australia with U.S. style gun policy

samcster94

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It is well known that Australia solved a gun problem with buybacks quite easily. There was no violence by any right wing extremists, no NRA, no law permitting guns. Imagine if you can change that with a post 1900 POD(Their Constitution already exists in 1900 btw). Bonus points for doing it without any "firearms amendment".
 
"Buy Back" seems doomed here in the states, every local one has brought weaponry out of the woodwork that would be more of a threat to the wielder than the target, if it fired at all. Little more than a program to put a little "grocery" money in poor neighborhoods...
 
Well Australia did have a US guns style policy up until the Unsworth NSW government became active in the heads of government.

Australian firearms were never "political" in the "Australian" community. They were pest control and wife shooters. They weren't connected to a narrative of political state creation. Australian militia were controversial but government run.

The political use of firearms in state creation was of course in massacre. But the structure of the frontier wars rapidly encouraged the concealment of massacre. And aboriginal resistance reconfigured itself based on passive resistance.

Current Australian firearm law is relatively open. The main costs are financial in terms of storage, certification, and the time to spend on range / pest control / hunting.

Port Arthur wasn't the tipping point, it was all the double and triple murser suicides from the 1970s long recession for the working class. Fixing international capitals returns to first world labour is an exercise left for the reader.

Yours
Sam R.
 
Port Arthur wasn't the tipping point

In Victoria it was the Queen St and Hoddle St massacres of 1987, that's when there was an amnesty on handing illegal guns in and things like needing to show a gun licence to buy ammo.
 
The challenge is maintaining two different laws: one for the Outback and the second law for cities. Drovers need guns for vermin control, but city folks have little use for firearms.

Canada suffers the same disparity. Even worse is that few Canadian civilians know anything about guns, yet criminals "can get [their] hands on any machine gun or rocket launcher they want."
 
The challenge is maintaining two different laws: one for the Outback and the second law for cities. Drovers need guns for vermin control, but city folks have little use for firearms.

Canada suffers the same disparity. Even worse is that few Canadian civilians know anything about guns, yet criminals "can get [their] hands on any machine gun or rocket launcher they want."

http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/131185/FACT_SHEET_VPACT_V2.0_March_2015.pdf

http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/__data.../133198/FACT_SHEET_Firearm_Types_Oct_2012.pdf

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...s/news-story/e438569f4ff181bbf0268568343b4204

NSW seems to manage it fine.

Yours,
Sam R.
 
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