My original post was short of some facts as I was at work at the time & pressed for a proper responce. In 1996 when Prime Minister Howard enacted the new gun laws he stated that this would upset a lot of Australians & if so they could show there frustrations at the ballot box. Since all Australians must enroll to vote & show up @ election time to vote. The general population failed to take up Prime Minister Howard on the gun ban issue as most Australians agreed with him at the time. As it is here in the USA the majority rules. So we are stuck for now with those restrictions the Australian people spoke by reelecting John Howard & also voted in his gun policy's by doing so. The majority of Australians seem to be in favour still of the laws John Howard passed & I don't see them being over turned any time soon.
shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted never works. that nag is long gone.
lazs is right, you guys should have got stuck in to your government before the legislation was passed, like the nz shooting organisations did over here when the ignorant clueless nz gov threatened to bring in the same knee jerk and draconian regulations.
to put it bluntly, and to keep a short story even shorter, the gov were politly told they were full of shirt, as well as given an education in the realities of the costs involved in buybacks, the likely low compliance with the regs, and the practicalities and costs involved in modifying guns to comply with the proposed regs… shortning magazine tubes on pump shotguns to physically hold only two rounds and so forth..
despite a noisy irrational anti gun brigade and a liberal/socialist gov, common sense won. at the time, I was surprised it didn’t work out that way in oz.
