In an ABC news report published on November 12, 2011, it was noted, 'In the 15 years since Martin Bryant killed 35 people at the popular Tasmanian tourist site, the flow of firearms into Australia has eclipsed the amount recovered in the government funded buy-back scheme.'

The same report noted that in the 2010-11 financial year Australians imported more than 85,000 firearms, including 44,000 rifles, 12,000 shotguns and nearly 20,000 handguns and that in the preceding 16 months 47,000 new guns have been registered in Queensland alone.

Recent research conducted by the University of Sydney and released in January, 2013, has confirmed that gun ownership in Australia has again consolidated at pre buyback levels.
While there was an initial spike in gun purchases in Australia when owners of now-banned multi-shot rifles and shotguns replaced their weapons with single-fire guns in the four years after Port Arthur, gun imports fell and remained stagnant. The lowest number of imports in a financial year - just under 18,000 - was recorded in 1998-99.

The recent University of Sydney research shows that the trade has now recovered, with a steady increase in the 10 years since, peaking at 66,461 guns imported into Australia in 2009/10, the highest number in 13 years.

Adjunct Associate Professor Philip Alpers, from the University's School of Public Health, has stated, 'Since 1988, when the first of several mass shootings took place, 38 state and federal gun amnesties ran for well over 3000 weeks.

If we include all the gun owners who sent their weapons to the smelter without asking for money, the real total is a million firearms destroyed, or a third of the national private arsenal. That's many more than we usually talk about.'

Commenting on the replenishment of Australian gun stocks, Professor Alpers has noted, 'By mid-2012, following a steady 10-year upward trend in gun buying, Australians had restocked the national stockpile of private guns to pre-Port Arthur levels. They did this by importing 1,055,082 firearms, an average of 43,961 each year since destruction programs began.'

Lionel, you appear to have missed the boat with what I've been arguing all along.

......As we are discussing legally owned firearms, you can't legally own an illegally imported firearms, Lionel.   

Same old, same old, I see.  My enforced absence hasn't changed the tone of the conversation, I note.  Still gun nuts flaming sensible people.   Funny that.

Same old, same old, I see. 
I wonder Baron, what do you think of the good ol' boys who like to use their guns to threaten their women folk in the home?   What about the good ol' girls who enjoy frightening their kids with their guns?   Such fun, law abidin' firearms owners have a home with their family and their guns, hey? 

At no stage have I ever sought to describe or categorise the attitude of people who enjoy shooting or people who are shooters as being in anyway criminal or un Australian.
I have not used language which has thought to label or smear you or tens of thousands of law abiding citizens.
John Howard ,16th June 1996,Sale Victoria

11.General restrictions on issue of licences
5.(c)is subject to an AVO or who has at any time within 10 years before application for the licence was made,been subject to such an order
legislation.nsw.gov.au/maintop/view/inforce/act+46+1996+cd+0+N

This guy was caught with a loaded gun while breaching an AVO, we know he can't be a law abiding firearm owner because the firearms act says he cannot have a firearm licence if he is subject to an AVO

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 27^th, 2015 at 1:08pm:


That guy never held a firearm licence peccahead,how can he be a LAFO if he never had a firearm licence?

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 27^th, 2015 at 1:16pm:


Got any evidence for that or did you pluck it from your ass?