Archive for February, 2000

Gun Politics in Australia

Shooting has been a legitimate activity in Australia for many years. Hundreds of gun clubs exist as do gun traders. Hopes for an independent thinking Australian gun lobby were badly affected when in the early 1990's the largest gun group, the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (SSAA) developed a tight political relationship with one the world's most extremist gun organisations, the National Rifle Association of America (NRA). Unfortunately this relationship and the SSAA's long associatio...