>people who already own guns have bought more rather than an increase in new gun owners.
If I were an unarmed aussie, I would be discreetly looking for friends with a certain passion.
there are thousands of guns buried around the country. Plus with our large border, being an island guns are easy to get.
DOMESTIC ILLICIT FIREARMS MARKETBased on available data, the ACIC.
Based on available data, the ACIC conservatively estimates there are 260,000 firearms (250,000 longarms and 10,000 handguns) in the domestic illicit market. This estimate is based on a range of intelligence sources, including firearm importation figures and seizure trends over time.
The exact extent of the Australian illicit firearms market cannot be determined as no historical data is available on its size prior to the implementation of the National Firearms Agreement (NFA) of 1996. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
estimates the global illicit market contains the equivalent of approximately 10 to 20 per cent of the number of firearms in the licit market.1 If this ratio is applied to Australia’s illicit firearm market, it would contain somewhere between 300,000 and 600,000 firearms.
https://www.acic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-08/illicit_firearms_in_australia.pdf
I don't own any myself. Guns kill people.
people kill people. Best not buy pens or pencils because they make spelling mistakes, or do they?
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