re: New Republic Ban them all

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I'm just trying to figure out from various posts on here if guns in Aust. are illegal. Are they?

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It is very, very, very difficult for an ordinary baw to own a gun of any kind in Australia. You have to go through so much bureaucratic bullshite, paperwork, background checks, etc. that 99% or the population don't find it worth the effort. I had a friend who owned a 400 acre farm in the Shoalhaven region of New South Wales. He was the only person I knew there who owned a rifle, and it was a practically a child's rifle - only held one .22 round at a time bolt action. Farmers had a legit use for a firearm to cull predators on their properties. Other than that, give it up unless you want the cops to come by once a year to inspect your gun safe to make sure everything is properly secured. You might find the occasional bloke who has grandpa's unregistered Enfield from World War II but even they are far and few in between.

Gangs always seem to be well supplied. A lot of blackmarket from Indonesia, southeast Asia, etc.