Archive for January, 2007

Recent Reports on Australian Gun Laws

Three recent important reports on the effectiveness of Australian gun laws should not be overlooked by students of the gun law debate. In October last year we were informed that two researchers from the Sporting Shooters Association had come to the decision that the many millions of dollars spent on buying-back hundreds of thousands of guns after the Port Arthur massacre had no effect on the homicide rate. This report was published in the respected British Journal of Criminology. According ...