Gun Control Australia

Shooter Group Deceptions Further Disgrace Gillard Government

Because it only represents shooters and the gun trade, the formation late last year of the Commonwealth Firearms Advisory Council (CFAC) was the ALP’s blatant attempt to buy the gun vote. The disgracefully biased composition of this panel reminds us how Julia Gillard has lost touch with the bulk of the Australian people; most of whom still remember the mass gun murders and the tragic price that over 70 murdered Australians paid before responsible gun laws were initiated. To further disgrac...

Australia’s Gun Laws Save Thousands of Lives – Shooter Groups Scared to Tell the Truth

With thousands of lives saved by reduced rates of gun homicide and gun suicide, we know how wonderfully successful the gun laws introduced after the six gun massacres in 1987 and the two gun massacres of 1996 have been. We refer to the combination of these stricter gun laws as the National Firearms Agreement (NFA). It is a tragedy for the Australian public that several shooter groups try to conceal the truth about the success of our improved gun laws. Such deceptions discredit our governments...

The Sporting Shooters Association and the Promotion of Fear

The SSAA (Sporting Shooters Association of Australia) publications have shown us that they would like to have guns available for self-defence. The SSAA is closely tied to the extremist gun doctrines of the NRA (National Rifle Association of America). Until 2007 the SSAA was proud to tell everyone (On the front page of its commercial magazine, the Australian Shooter) that it was affiliated with the NRA, but as the public became aware of the danger that NRA gun doctrine extremism posed to this cou...

Fifteen Years Since Port Arthur Gun Massacre

On 28 April 1996 Martin Bryant murdered 35 people at Port Arthur in Tasmania: he injured 18 more. The Howard Coalition government acted swiftly, other political parties cooperated and the National Firearms Agreement (NFA) came about. Soon improved gun laws existed throughout Australia. The inventory of semi-automatic rifles and shotguns was greatly reduced, gun registration was made universal, an improved licensing system was introduced and gun storage demands improved. It took several years for...

The Lessons of Arizona

  The Lessons of Arizona One sickening message that comes out of the recent gun murders in Arizona is that if governments by-pass their responsibility and allow anyone to get a semi automatic handgun, then many of the purchasers of those handguns will use them for the purpose for which they were designed - to kill people. Americans are good at killing each other with guns. US politicians are good at making it easy for them to do so. The American gun industry is good at not expressing cr...