Only semi rifles are banned here, as a knee-jerk reaction (while everybody was still stunned from the event) to the Port Arthur massacre in 1995.
John Howard tried to ban handguns in 2000 and all he succeeded in doing was getting a few guns destroyed and the requirement of a special “valid reason” to own anything bigger than .38/.357/9mm. He also succeeded in making a whole new crop of sport shooters who responded to his “banning all handguns by Christmas” statements.
And once again, like the Boston fiasco, Oklahoma, 911, etc, the official Port Arthur story (one lone mentally impaired shooter, killing with extreme speed and military precision, cops all sent to the other end of town beforehand) doesn’t smell right.
Luckily it hasn’t changed much over the last few years but I wouldn’t recommend you all agree to the kinds of restrictions we live under.
Yes, there are certainly guns here. To see some of the ladies here shooting western-action rapids with 100 year old design lever action rifles, one wonders why there is such a fuss about AR15s and other semis potentially being banned. Please don’t tell Dangerous Dianne and Mad Michael Bloomberg about Marlin or Winchester model 1894s!
The only semis here (unless you have a special license) are handguns, but they are exactly the same handguns as the US has…for now.
Yanks who don’t have a bolt-action scoped centrefire, like a 30.06, .303 or .308 should grab one, just in case!
And get your handloading skills up to scratch. Handloading gives one a virtual fountain of specific ammo and whatever other category one cares to tool up for. Once you have the basic stuff, setting up for a new calibre or case style is relatively easy and cheap, compared to the cost of a few hundred rounds of store-bought.
The really keen should get a lathe. You can make projectiles, cases, and even makeshift primers with a lathe, or a mill with a rotating table. Not to mention countless other marvellous things, including another lathe!
Truth be told, the “shortage” doesn’t seem to have bitten here as yet. A lot of handloading powders come from ADI, which is locally made, even though lots of store-bought ammo is imported.
No stampedes to the ammo shelves that I’ve seen, but that could change.
Citizens buying ammo in Australia? I thought guns were banned in Australia? How can they buy ammo?
I actually found this heartening, that there are more guns left Down Under than I thought.
Only semi rifles are banned here, as a knee-jerk reaction (while everybody was still stunned from the event) to the Port Arthur massacre in 1995.
John Howard tried to ban handguns in 2000 and all he succeeded in doing was getting a few guns destroyed and the requirement of a special “valid reason” to own anything bigger than .38/.357/9mm. He also succeeded in making a whole new crop of sport shooters who responded to his “banning all handguns by Christmas” statements.
And once again, like the Boston fiasco, Oklahoma, 911, etc, the official Port Arthur story (one lone mentally impaired shooter, killing with extreme speed and military precision, cops all sent to the other end of town beforehand) doesn’t smell right.
Luckily it hasn’t changed much over the last few years but I wouldn’t recommend you all agree to the kinds of restrictions we live under.
Yes, there are certainly guns here. To see some of the ladies here shooting western-action rapids with 100 year old design lever action rifles, one wonders why there is such a fuss about AR15s and other semis potentially being banned. Please don’t tell Dangerous Dianne and Mad Michael Bloomberg about Marlin or Winchester model 1894s!
The only semis here (unless you have a special license) are handguns, but they are exactly the same handguns as the US has…for now.
Yanks who don’t have a bolt-action scoped centrefire, like a 30.06, .303 or .308 should grab one, just in case!
And get your handloading skills up to scratch. Handloading gives one a virtual fountain of specific ammo and whatever other category one cares to tool up for. Once you have the basic stuff, setting up for a new calibre or case style is relatively easy and cheap, compared to the cost of a few hundred rounds of store-bought.
The really keen should get a lathe. You can make projectiles, cases, and even makeshift primers with a lathe, or a mill with a rotating table. Not to mention countless other marvellous things, including another lathe!
Truth be told, the “shortage” doesn’t seem to have bitten here as yet. A lot of handloading powders come from ADI, which is locally made, even though lots of store-bought ammo is imported.
No stampedes to the ammo shelves that I’ve seen, but that could change.