Guns Control Laws In Australia's Gun Control

This week in our reading we focused on Chapter 1 of the SSM 200 course text, Gun Laws and Legislation. While this isn’t the most exciting subject to be reading about it’s an area ANYONE in the firearms industry needs to be well educated in. With the current political environment having so many anti-gun players shaping and forming red tape, violating any laws/regulations can have very serious legal ramifications.

Over the last two decades, Australia’s firearm laws have undergone extensive reform, resulting from two main catalyst shootings. These shootings events are known as the 1996 Port Arthur massacre and the 2002 Monash University shooting (Baker, & McPhedran, 2007).

In Australia and America, gun control laws are very different, therefore, the populations of the two countries have different mindsets regarding gun control and violence. America’s gun control laws are based on history while Australia is more open to changing their laws. Because America’s gun control laws are stated in the Bill of Rights, the government is more reluctant to change them. Therefore, gun violence is more prevalent in the United States due to the higher prevalence of guns in general. However, Australia has altered its gun control laws as a result of a mass shooting and has not had any ever since.

Australia immediately responded to the tragic mass shooting by implementing strict gun control and passing the National Firearms Agreement and Buyback Program (NFABP). The NFABP banned many types of semi-automatic weapons and required a permit for each weapon with a twenty-eight-day waiting period. Additionally, Australia implemented a national firearms registration system, and placed restrictions on gun sales and ammunition. Only licensed firearm dealers could sell firearms and the amount of ammunition that could be sold was limited. Further, one seeking to own a firearm must be of minimum age eighteen, successfully complete a gun-safety course, provide a legitimate reason for owning a firearm—self-defense does not meet the legitimate

This essay investigates the Australian gun laws and whether they are effective or not. In particular, with a focus on what the current gun laws are and how they have or have not worked also if they need to be updated. The current gun laws were first introduced by John Howard in 1997 after the mass shooting in Port Arthur where 35 people were killed and a further 18 injured on the 28th of April, 1996 (Sharpe, 2016), the laws were them further improved in 2002, after the Monash University shooting, where a commerce student with mental impairments came in to class armed with 6 loaded handguns, 2 students died and an additional 5 were injured (ABC News, 2015). It has been almost 20 years since the introduction of the current gun laws, the essay

On a seemingly normal day on the 29th of April 1996, an average looking 28 year old male, Martin Bryant, ate lunch and approached a café in Port Arthur, Tasmania. The man pulled a semi-automatic rifle from a bag, relentlessly killing 35 innocent people and injuring another 23. The Port Arthur massacre was a pinnacle turning point in Australia’s history as the prime minister of the time, John Howard, introduced the National Firearms Agreement, banning all semi-automatic and automatic rifles alongside pump action shotguns http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/port-arthur-massacre-shooting-spree-changed-australia-gun-laws-n396476. Ever since the introduction of the National Firearms Agreement, Australian citizens have not been victims of mass shootings

Federal and state gun control laws in the United States regulating the sale, manufacture, possession and transport of firearms. Although each state has the authority to enact their own gun control laws, federal and state laws impose restrictions on the ownership, use and types of weapons that are legal. In addition, cities, counties and municipalities may have their own restrictions on use, possession and sale of

The rise in cases of gun violence and related incidences of assault has drawn the public to the issue of guns and gun control. Such has been evident within the spheres of politics especially with the last election period seeing the incumbent president Donald Trump suggesting on stringent gun control laws. However, despite the acknowledgment of the need to have better gun laws, much ground and consensus has never reached. Such, to an extent, contributed to the current lack of political goodwill within the country to have the necessary legislations enacted to facilitate the same on the controls (Grandy 23). Of the guns under question are the assault rifles. Like the military weapons, assault rifles have a destructive potential to causing

Guns have always been a major problem in the United States of America. The Second Amendment to the Constitution gives us the right to “bear arms,” which makes everyone feel they need to have a gun, and that can lead to dangerous situations for people in the US. It is very easy to get yourself a gun. It costs less than an iPhone to get. The problem I am trying to get at is that there are inevitably going to be  gun-use violations, and people can use the Second Amendment to get guns way too easily. My essay will deal with how we can create laws and practices to regulate guns, how we can stop guns from getting into the wrong hands, and also how we can prevent mass shootings.

Many countries have implicated stricter gun control laws which has in fact, caused there to be less acts of gun violence. For example, Australia has the National Agreement on firearms which has prohibited semiautomatic and automatic assault rifles. and has implicated a law forcing everyone to register and get a license to purchase a firearm. Unfortunately, these restrictions were enforced due to the most tragic mass shooting in the nations history. The Port Arthur massacre of 1996, where a man killed 35 innocent people and wounded almost 2 dozen others. Now, Australia has less than three hundred people killed per year. That is an outstanding number compared to the 32,000 people killed each year in the United States by

Epidemiologic Reviews, found that “law restrictions on owning and purchasing guns was followed by a drop in gun violence, indicating that government imposed restraints to gun access can save lives”. If our nation imposed tighter gun control laws like the Australian government, we would see a drop in gun-related violence across America.

Gun control, also known as firearm regulation is the set laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification or use of firearms by civilians. The United States federal government should increase the amount of security amongst the sales of these weapons and to also do everything in their power to get as many illegal guns off the street. According to the statistics found by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the government should ban all use of guns/firearms. In the year 2013, there were 73,505 nonfatal firearm injuries, 11,208 homicides, 21,175 suicides, 505 deaths due to accidental or negligent discharge of a firearm and 281 fatalities due to firearms used with “undetermined intent”. A total of 106,674 lives could have been saved if there were a prohibition on firearms.

More gun control laws should not be enforced because; gun control laws, trying to ban “assault rifles” infringe upon the right to own a gun for hunting and sport and also, strict gun control laws do not work in the U.S.

Within the last couple of months, gun control and gun control laws has been seen all over the news and all over social media. I decided that topic would be perfect for this essay While scrolling through Facebook, I came upon this meme and I knew right away it was the right meme for this paper. Within the last couple of months, we have had about two major mass shootings and they have had a huge impact over the nation. Society is wondering why the government is not doing much and why we are not seeing any changes with these laws. Most people are saying that we need to have stricter gun laws, but would that really change anything?

The studies and research on gun control has opened up many ideas on how weak the current laws really are. Crime rates consist of high numbers. “Since 1982, there have been at least 62 mass shootings across the country, with the killings unfolding in 30 states from Massachusetts to Hawaii”