Am I the only one who thinks our australian gun laws are stupid?

It's better for them to kill each other than for them to kill law-abiding citizens. And you don't need guns for protection against home invaders, because unarmed criminals just steal and aren't really a danger to your life. That's the great thing about gun laws: it gets criminals to commit nonviolent crimes and kill each other, instead of killing law-abiding citizens.

Yes you are the only person who thinks our gun laws are stupid. Since these tougher laws came in we have had no massacres like the one we had at Port Arthur that caused the laws to be brought in here. Why do you or any person need an assault rifle that its only purpose is to kill people. They are not toys as you seem to think they are. If you want to play with these sort of things join the army and if you prefer big guns become an artillery man. People like you don't appreciate the number of mass murders that used to happen in Australia. You have lived in a safe country and don't appreciate it as you can safely walk down a street these days in Australia without some nut with a automatic rifle blasting people off the footpath. You don't care about the innocent people with their children murdered at Port Arthur as you are immature and want to play with a ridiculous Rifle so you feel powerful. Maybe you are one of those mentally ill people who want these weapons so you can mass murder some people yourself.

You can still buy bolt action guns and it just means murderers cannot kill as many people before someone steps in and disarms them. That is the aim of the legislation to give people a better chance of disarming these mentally ill people before they can kill 20,30,40 people or more. It seems to me you feel you need a powerful automatic weapon to make you feel powerful. It's called small penis syndrome. Get a life and be happy you live in a country where the homicide rate is low compared to in America because they think they need guns.

Break into my home, and I'll introduce you to the business end of my Louisville slugger.

No gun needed. One good hit, and I assure you...........you're going down.

I wish all Americans that are clamoring for gun control could read this!

In Australia: “The number of homicide incidents involving a firearm decreased by 57 percent between 1989-90 and 2013-14,” the government crime trends report says. “Firearms were used in 13 percent of homicide incidents in 2013-14. In 1989-90 it was 24 percent of incidents.” The homicide incident rate has fallen even more than the number of homicides — from 1.6 per 100,000 in 1995-96 to 1 per 100,000 in 2013-2014.

Could be.

nothing wrong with our gun laws except they could be a big tighter

dumbasses like you should live in the USA where you can go get shot anytime anywhere by some kid

Firearms categories

The National Firearm Agreement defines categories of firearms, with different levels of control for each, as follows:.

Category A

Rimfire rifles (not semi-automatic), shotguns (not pump-action or semi-automatic), air rifles including semi-automatic, and paintball guns.

Category B

Centrefire rifles including bolt action, pump action and lever action (not semi-automatic) and muzzleloading firearms made after 1 January 1901.

Category C

Pump-action or self-loading shotguns having a magazine capacity of 5 or fewer rounds and semi-automatic rimfire rifles up to 10 rounds. Primary producers, farm workers, firearm dealers, firearm safety officers, collectors and clay target shooters can own functional Category C firearms.

Category D

All self-loading centrefire rifles, pump-action or self-loading shotguns that have a magazine capacity of more than 5 rounds, semi-automatic rimfire rifles over 10 rounds, are restricted to government agencies, occupational shooters and primary producers.

Category H

Handguns including air pistols and deactivated handguns. This class is available to target shooters and certain security guards whose job requires possession of a firearm. To be eligible for a Category H firearm, a target shooter must serve a probationary period of 6 months using club handguns, after which they may apply for a permit. A minimum number of matches yearly to retain each category of handgun and be a paid-up member of an approved pistol club.[4] Target shooters are limited to handguns of .38 or 9mm calibre or less and magazines may hold a maximum of 10 rounds. Participants in certain "approved" pistol competitions may acquire handguns up to .45 calibre, currently Single Action Shooting and Metallic Silhouette. IPSC shooting is approved for 9mm/.38/.357 SIG, handguns that meet the IPSC rules, larger calibres such as .45 were approved for IPSC handgun shooting contests in Australia in 2014, however only in Victoria so far.[5] Barrels must be at least 100mm (3.94") long for revolvers, and 120mm (4.72") for semi-automatic pistols unless the pistols are clearly ISSF target pistols; magazines are restricted to 10 rounds.

Category R/E

Restricted weapons include military weapons such as machine guns, rocket launchers, full automatic self loading rifles, flame-throwers and anti-tank guns.

Certain antique firearms (generally muzzle loading black powder flintlock firearms manufactured before 1 January 1901) can in some states be legally held without a licence.[6] In other states they are subject to the same requirements as modern firearms.[7] All single-shot muzzleloading firearms manufactured before 1 January 1901 are considered antique firearms. Four states require licences for antique percussion revolvers and cartridge repeating firearms, but in Queensland and Victoria a person may possess such a firearm without a licence, so long as the firearm is registered (percussion revolvers require a licence in Victoria).

There is not one gun on Australian soil.