Gun Control Australia

How Dangerous are American Gun Extremists?

It seems that some gun owners in the USA (and perhaps Australia) believe that gun ownership may be used to challenge governments in a hostile manner. It also seems to us that gun extremist groups (groups that want little or no controls on gun ownership) in the US, such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) will not clearly condemn those who have such ideas. GCA urges all Australians who are concerned about the possibility of this occurring in the...

The Sporting Shooters Association (SSAA) and the eleven to one gamble.

On today's front page of the Brady Center's website you'll see what possible horrors may be in store for Australians if the SSAA gets its way with our gun laws. By 'gets it way' we mean that it succeeds in breaking our current gun law regime and has its own American style versions put in their place - this could be done, for instance, by persuading the party in power that it needed the pro-gun vote. Our prime minister seems to shoot at a SSAA range, so he appears to have a pro-SSAA bias. Perhaps...

Australian Politicians Should Wake-Up

The way our Prime Minister happily uses the gun extremist Sporting Shooters Association (SSAA) shooting facilities is worrying. The SSAA has long been closely associated with the American gun extremism of the National Rifle Association and the Second Amendment Foundation. All the signs suggest that the SSAA wants American-style gun laws in Australia.The US is sickly awash with all types of rapid-firing high-powered guns and in the continual grip of handgun addiction. Why then does our ...

Where are all the Non-killing Guns?

In his President message for October 2007, the SSAA National President, Bob Green, complained about Gun Control Australia saying that "Teaching a child to shoot is teaching a child to kill". Guns are designed to fire or propel high-speed projectiles. These so-called bullets are, in the vast majority of cases, designed to kill something or to be used to practice for the killing process. Shooters may have noticed that you don't need to take a safety training course when you buy a tennis racqu...

On guns, can the Australian public trust the Australian Institute of Criminology? We say, no.

Over 20 years ago the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) was trusted by the Australian public and the then Federal Government under Bob Hawke to examine one of our nation's greatest problems with violence. We'll remind you of that period before we tell you about the recent behaviour of the AIC. 1987 was a horror year for Australians; it was the year when six gun massacres took place. You might remember the gun killings because for the most part they were done by licensed shooters usi...