National Firearms Agreement

Australia made the same choice after Port Arthur in nineteen ninety-six, thirty-five people killed.

The government passed the National Firearms Agreement within weeks and ran a mandatory buyback.

The buyback is the canonical case of a state reasserting its monopoly after a mass casualty event.

It's the clearest possible statement that the state, not the citizen, holds the legitimate use of force.

That's the deal Japan has made with its citizens, and it's a deal most Japanese seem to accept.

Australia made a similar deal after Port Arthur.

The National Firearms Agreement banned semi-automatic rifles and shotguns, established a national registry, and required a genuine reason for ownership.

Self-defense isn't a genuine reason in Australia.

Whereas we had relatively uniform laws, now that uniformity is starting to break up.

So Minsk and Albanese have successfully destroyed the National Firearms Agreement, essentially.

and

so from state to state it varies so New South Wales is obviously the centre point Tasmania is also a divided area because they've got legislation excuse me they've got legislation before their parliament which they're not they're trying to avoid caps but they are recategorising straight pull fire-ups they're recategorising straight pull centre fires to C category C they're not touching the rim fires which is good but So they're proposing to do that, and the Labor Party and the Greens have given notice that they are going to propose amendments in the parliament to introduce caps.

They aren't.

I mean, Western Australians are the worst from our point of view, but they were never part of the National Firearms Agreement from the start.

But I think this time round too...

There is, from where I sit, there's been a large level of discomfort with where Australia's been going anyway, with our culture or general culture.