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Originally posted by Adam Helmer
deadkelly,
Welcome to the Forum. I see you are from Australia and have recently been subject to some rather harsh gun control laws. I believe you CANNOT own an SKS and many other arms we here own in the USA.
Would you be so kind to tell us what military surplus arms you FORMERLY could legally own and now cannot? Why were the new restrictions imposed and why was it not vigorously opposed by Australian gun owners? Has there been a net decrease in armed crime in Australia?
Adam
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well first mate us gun owners and shooters did vigorously protest.our prime minister was wearing a bullet proof vest and didn't the media love that they took that hook line and sinker and they ran(i don't think they have ever stopped running) this was back in 1996.and why well we had a couple of F--K WITS go on shooting sprees .martin bryant in port arthur tasmania. wade frankum in stathfield shopping mall,and julian knight in hoddle st melbourne .now you and i both know about a decrease in armed crime.as the population grows and poor get poorer crime will always grow,the only thing that will decrease is peoples rights.NOW TERRORISM well well what do i say or should i not say.ok back to the good ol days when ya could buy a sks ,skk for about $au 180-220,mate we could have anything short of full auto.never silencers now no pistols with barrels shorter than 4in ,theres a semi auto pistol ban about to come in thats all semi autos.only a very very few people can own any semi auto rifles any..every year the law gets tighter and tighter .about 4 months ago in the paper inspector smart of wepons branch in queensland said only cheifs should have pointed knives.so where do you think where heading.well i probably think very similar to you guys . well you might see that iam a single shot ol boy and shoot black powder, and reenact american civil war over here in the very deep south lol.have alook see acwrtq.com iam the wheats tiger zouave , ok latter guys.