Firearm Ban in Australia - People from USA should see this video

OWWWCH......
The hardest thing to watch was the sparks from the chop saws.
I'm surprised they are so complacent and didn't revolt.
 
Banning semis is silly but I'll stand up and say the USA could use some better licencing.

Agreed, i personally think the USA could learn a thing or two from our gun laws, in that education, training, and practical demonstration of knowledge and competence should be a requirement to own a firearm, as a minimum...of course the mental health and violence/criminal history checks are a no brainer. In many states, it's perfectly legal to sell a handgun to another person in grocery store parking lot with no paperwork, no identification and no background check. That is what's wrong with their system.

Canada's problem is what the USA did right, banning guns based on appearance, or functionality...i can understand why select fire military rifles are prohibited, but so what if a gun can be converted to full auto easily...if it's illegal to do so, law abiding legal gun owners won't do it...and why so many restrictions on handguns? sure, make restricted firearms registration manditory, but cut out the transportation bull####...
 
Politician need to concentrate on crime control and NOT gun control. Need to stop distracting from the real task.
 
Careful ?? We are careful law abiding citizens! It takes 1 mentally derranged person or wack-job with a "everybodys hates me,nobody loves me", attitude to do something then its YOUR fault and you have to surrender your property. No I disagree with you Daver we have to be organized get out heads out of the sand and join organizations that fight for our rights,like our American brothers and sisters do.
Start opening your wallets guys and girls....
cooner

Perhaps then, before this happens, we should be pushing 2 agendas not just 1. Gun rights for 1 and a tougher stance on the mentally ill with guns, so the antis can't play the blame game later.
 
the problem is that people dont care about their neighbor.
"gun" owner only represent a little part of the population, and the rest dont care about them.
thats the problem.

number make the strength, did you see the protest in the past year called "Occupy Wall Street"?
they weren't much, but they almost won. if other people had stop and helped them they would have got what they wanted.
 
No way we submit to it in Canada. UN scre3 you we will keep our guns. Small arms dealers keep it up the fight. All of us plz support NRA they do a lot of work for us
 
The Australian gov't are acting like the Nazi's before WWII. However it has proven what we all knew, the law abiding gun owner/ enthusiast is not the problem! Yes the Americans should take some lessons from us, I don't understand why they already haven't! License the gun owner through courses and deep background checks, you get a card, pal or rpal, and you are good to go! Why waste time doing a background check every time you buy a firearm!
 
Pretty sad when criminals are lawfully given the upper hand. I'm sure it's been said here, but I'm willing to bet a better licensing program wouldnt hurt in America, that said it just keeps guns out of hands of a small demograph of people.
 
Banning semis is silly but I'll stand up and say the USA could use some better licencing.

Agreed, i personally think the USA could learn a thing or two from our gun laws, in that education, training, and practical demonstration of knowledge and competence should be a requirement to own a firearm, as a minimum...of course the mental health and violence/criminal history checks are a no brainer. In many states, it's perfectly legal to sell a handgun to another person in grocery store parking lot with no paperwork, no identification and no background check. That is what's wrong with their system.

Canada's problem is what the USA did right, banning guns based on appearance, or functionality...i can understand why select fire military rifles are prohibited, but so what if a gun can be converted to full auto easily...if it's illegal to do so, law abiding legal gun owners won't do it...and why so many restrictions on handguns? sure, make restricted firearms registration manditory, but cut out the transportation bull####...

I'll chalk this up to both of you guys being relatively new around here and like most good Canadians completely brainwashed about guns but.....

Do you know there are serious studies on both sides of the border (real, peer reviewed research, not Brady Campaign lies and distortions) that show that no gun laws including licensing, registration, background checks, bans on "dangerous" models etc, have had any appreciable affect on firearms murder rates? Please educate yourself on research by Dr Gary Mauser and Dr Caillan Langman here in Canada and Gary Kleck and Dr John Lott in the US.

If murders by African Americans (13% of the population, 50% of the murders) are removed from the equation the murder rate in the US is very close to that in Canada despite the US having far more firearms and far more liberal laws (please note, I don't say this as a racist remark, I feel it is a byproduct of socioeconomic conditions, not race). In fact without allowing for racial demographics there are many US states that have significantly lower murder rates than a number of Canadian provinces despite having next to no restrictions on firearms including a number that allow CCW without permits.

I know that much of this is counter intuitive and hard to absorb for many people but it is the truth.

About the only firearms restriction I could support would be a registry of those not allowed to own them. Any one on this list caught with or attempting to acquire a firearm should face extreme punishment.
 
I just read an article on this after watching that video and it absolutely disgusts me.

"The following are some basic Australian regulations:

To own a firearm, you are required to have a license (an application for such will usually take at least three month for all processes to occur, e.g. criminal checks, safety courses, etc.).
All firearms are to be registered with police.
Self-defense is not a valid reason but a prohibited reason. (While you may own a long-arm for various reasons, there is only one reason permitted for a handgun license, and that is competition target shooting.)
Every firearm holder must be a financial member of a registered gun club at all times. (More than this, it must be an association approved by the commissioner, who may at any time dismiss the association, leaving all members of that organization in breach of the law.)
Every time you wish to purchase a firearm, you must apply to the police for a permit to purchase that particular gun, which may be denied at their discretion without any reason provided.
Every firearm must be stored in a safe that is “secured to structure,” and the installation of the safe must be viewed and approved by police before use (with strict rules down to the number of bolts outlined in the Police Registry Guide irrespective of the weight of the safe).
Transportation of firearms may only occur between storage location and gunsmith, or storage location and shooting location. (Any breach will result in instant confiscation and arrest.)

In addition to these, the Australian gun owner is subjected to the following realities in 2013, courtesy of ongoing regulations:

Mandatory attendance requirements for those who own handguns include a minimum of six target shooting visits to the pistol club per year for the first firearm and two additional visits per additional handgun, where competition scores from “approved matches” must be recorded each time.
Mandatory attendance requirements for those who own rifles or long-arms include either a minimum of four visits to the rifle-range per year (if target shooting is declared as the reason on the license) or a minimum of two visits to the rifle range per year (if hunting is declared).
Pistol clubs and rifle ranges are legally required to inform police if a member has not met the required competition shoots, and they are not permitted to admit a member if the member hasn’t met these requirements.
Firearms collectors must belong to an approved collectors club and attend at least two meetings a year.
If a citizen has firearms on his property, the police have a right to search the property without a warrant any time they wish. They’re not legally required to advise the citizen of a visit in advance. (In the last 18 months, one general constable as well as a firearms licensing officer in full combat gear attends.)
In the event that any party involved in a personal complaint owns firearms (whether the complaint was instigated on his behalf or otherwise), prior to investigation, the police confiscate the firearms for an indefinite period of time.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/catastrophe-when-americas-twin-gave-up-guns/#tvJlCeigMBLsBGJy.99
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All these so called democracies are just forms of modern tyranny. One has to wonder when the bubble is finally gonna burst and the people retake there rights one way or another.
 
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