For many years gun lobby leaders have expressed great aggravation about the implementation of stricter gun laws in Australia and connected it to agreements with the United Nations. The shooters claim that anti-gun activists are working under the United Nation’s banner to remove private gun ownership. They claim that documents reveal that, according to a 1996 United Nations agreement

“Australia would support the preparation of an appropriate declaration of principles as a means of reducing the number of firearms in the community”

Accordingly the Australian gun lobby claim that there is no doubt that various world-wide bureaucrats are pushing towards the general disarmament of private gun owners and they are strengthened in this belief by the United Nation’s interest in the international regulations of light weapons, because the Economic and Social Council of the Unite Nations adopted a resolution titled “Criminal Justice Reform and Strengthening of Legal Institutions – Measures to Regulate Firearms”.

The shooters claim that this resolution seeks to promote a public belief that there are links between private gun ownership and high levels of violence in the community, a view which the gun lobby strongly reject.

The very basis of the United Nations organisation is the prevention of armed hostilities and it is well within their charter to be concerned with excessive numbers of weapons. There can surely be no doubt that the gun lobby’s determination to give private citizens access to military rifles, as well as their interest in promoting the ideal of a privately armed society, would one day place them in a position where the likely consequences of their actions would be reviewed by the United Nations organisation.

Once the gun lobby concentrated on shooting as a pastime. Now their interest has turned to private militias and pro-gun political parties. They have drawn away from the main body of Australian society.