tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877849.post4250267876374754339..comments2024-03-28T02:11:54.900+10:00Comments on GUN WATCH: Australian Gun Culture: End of the 2017 Amnesty 50,000 Gunsjonjayrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363092874281160320noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877849.post-15060189271695262602017-10-16T12:01:25.329+10:002017-10-16T12:01:25.329+10:00Please send links to more Australian shootings wit...Please send links to more Australian shootings with 4 or more fatalities. <br /><br />I would like to see the SSAA figures that show 10 million unregistered guns. A link would be helpful.<br /><br />A link showing importation of 1 million SKS rifles into Australia would also be helpful.<br /><br />I have not found those links.Dean Weingartenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07026716292548440054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877849.post-27016404893003347032017-10-15T13:18:21.866+10:002017-10-15T13:18:21.866+10:00a n° of points:
i/SSAA research indicates up to t...a n° of points:<br /><br />i/SSAA research indicates up to <b>ten million</b> 'un-registered' guns in Australia;<br />(including over one million SKS rifles...imported during the 1980s and early 1990s as part of a trade deal with China)<br /><br />ii/there have been several 'mass shootings' since the so-called Port Arthur massacre.....<br />(a 'mass shooting' being defined as four or more fatalities apropos US DoJ/FBI guide-lines)<br /><br />iii/the government has no real idea of how many "illegal" guns are imported annually;<br />(there are over one million sea-tainers going through AU ports annually...less than 10% of these are checked) <br /><br />iv/the 1996/1997 'buy-back' of guns kept the Liberal Coalition Party out-of-office for almost 15yrs in states and territories and, ultimately, cost Howard his own parliamentary seat of Bennelong;<br />(since both Shorten and Turnbull have made no bones abt their hoplophobia either, it is to be expected that <i>both</i> will be severely punished @ the polls.....there will be many more 'hung' Parliaments on the AU electoral scene in the near future....in fact: the ALP and the Liberal Coalition Party may well have to 'merge' to survive...) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com