G'Day Fella's,

Ripp, to be perfectly honest, where I live, there has been an increase in violent crime of all types!
In shit holes like Sydney etc, the violent crime using firearms has increased dramatically!!!
From what I've heard in the media, most of this is with Handguns but regardless, Unlicensed Firearms in almost All Cases!
I think the most honest way to respond to any inquiry about the present situation in Australia is; "Australia is now the most violent and dangerous place, it has ever been"!

Ripp, earlier this year the Federal Senate here in Australia, finalised an enquiry into various aspects of (including Registered and Unregistered) firearms in Australia. Here is some of the information, that came from this enquiry;
"Senator Bridget McKenzie said the senate inquiry report found that only four hundredths of one per cent of all registered guns in Australia were stolen and only five per cent of those were used to commit a crime"!
So given this information, the vast majority of firearms that are NOW USED to commit crimes (a MASSIVE amount), are unregistered and in many if not all cases (given the gun laws that were put in place in 1996, after the Port Arthur massacre), are now considered "Prohibited Firearms" and because of this, the general public are not allowed to own them!
But the Criminals seem to have Little or No Problem obtaining them!!!

Now as for your illustrious leader, "Borat O'Bongo" (and the US media), it would appear he (they) are just a bunch of Blatant Liars! That is the most polite description I can think of for him (them)!!!

The way I put it to people that have know knowledge of firearms registration etc is;
If as a LAFO I want a new firearm, I will have to wait 28 Days of cooling off, before I'm authorised by the Police, to take possession of it!
If any Criminal wants Any Type of Unregistered Firearm, they only have to wait 28 Minutes!!!

Ripp, it would appear that this drive to disarm us all, is driven by "our" dumb politicians signing the UN convention on Civilian Disarmament!
So in reality, "our" politicians are just UN STOOGES and apparently, their happy being in their company!!!

Hope that helps

Regards
Homer