Illegal (as in NOT registered) Guns Down Under, a Chilling Lesson for the U.S.A.

By Dean Weingarten
Results of an intrusive national registration scheme.

Confiscated Guns
Illegal (as in NOT registered) Guns Down Under, a Chilling Lesson for the U.S.A.
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Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- These guns and air rifles are being haled as a find of a massive cache of private guns in Moonford, Australia, a tiny farming community with virtually no crime.

That is, there was no crime there before the National Australian government created it with the intrusive “gun control” law they passed, taking advantage of the act of a madman and the emotional response pushed by their national media.

All guns must be registered.  All guns must be locked up.  All guns are subject to inspection at virtually any time.  When I considered a trip to Australia a few years ago, I learned that even spear guns and blowguns are subject to restrictions.

It is chilling confirmation that gun registration is gun confiscation.

The “crime” here would not be any crime at all in the vast majority of the United States, and would not have been a crime in much of Australia before 1996.  Notice that in the picture the “illegal guns” include pellet guns, single shot .22 rifles, antique shotguns, and numerous bolt action hunting rifles.   A few of the firearms that were found might be restricted in the liberal controlled blue states of the USA.

The three men charged, a 69 year old father and two sons, aged 46 and 42, were licensed to have 71 firearms, and all those firearms are included in the 328 gun seizure.   Because they are licensed to have guns, it is clear that they are not career criminals.  It is not as if they can shoot more than maybe two guns at once.  But because the guns *are not registered* they are all subject to being confiscated.

Australia has done what the American anti-freedom advocates want: to make any possession of any gun not registered to the state a crime.   All the guns in the country are then subject to seizure by the state at any time the state either 1)finds them (for those not registered) or 2)desires to take them (those already registered).   The seizure of the guns included 4.2 tons of ammunition.   Total value is likely to be hundreds of thousands of dollars.  I wonder if  Australian law will include confiscating the 2,000 acre farm.

There is no credible evidence that the strict gun control laws in Australia have decreased crime or suicides.  For every study that claims they have, there is at least as credible of a study to show they have not.  What is clear is the Prime Minister, John Howard, hated people having access to firearms, and that he would do anything to restrict and ban them.  From Wikipedia:

Until 1996, the federal government had little role in firearms law. Following the Port Arthur massacre, the Howard Government (1996–2007), with strong media and public support, introduced uniform gun laws with the cooperation of all the states, brought about through threats to Commonwealth funding arrangements (bold added). The then Prime Minister John Howard frequently referred to the USA to explain his opposition to civilian firearms ownership and use in Australia, stating that he did not want Australia to go “down the American path”.[53][54][55] In one interview on Sydney radio station 2GB he said, “We will find any means we can to further restrict them because I hate guns… ordinary citizens should not have weapons. We do not want the American disease imported into Australia.”

It is notable that the Federal Government used financial extortion to obtain the cooperation of the states.  It is remarkably similar to what we have seen in the United States.   Australia should serve as an object lesson to Americans.   Their media and government so despised guns in private hands that they were quite willing to use “all means” to bring about the nationalization of the gun laws Australia now suffers under.   The vast majority of Australians live in coastal cities and know only what they are told by the media about guns.  Their ignorance has cost their country cousins much time, treasure, and police intrusion into their lives.

Fortunately, the United States can learn from Australia’s experience.  We have far more activists who have developed strong networks to oppose these ill considered laws.  Our urban populations are learning the truth about citizen disarmament laws.  Australia’s developing network of activists was simply overwhelmed by the combined media and government forces that conspired against them.

Editors Note: If your reading this and you still have not joined, as in sent in your money, to one on the many state and national pro gun organization, STOP FREELOADING of that back of others do you part. Join the NRA, SAF or GOA or one of the many effective state level groups we report on everyday here at Ammoland, Shooting Sports News.

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About Dean Weingarten;
Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973.  He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of constitutional carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and recently retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.

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TAZ Sr.

What the anti-gun sheep don’t understand is the Freedom we share was fought for and is still defended by weapons. I didn’t spend 22mos.2wks.5days and 19 hrs. doing what My Country told me to do, to have people who never did anything positive for My Country, tell me I don’t have the Right to legally own what I was trained to use in defense of My Country. Seems wrong that it is o.k. to use a gun when they want the wolf put back in his cage, but not o.k. for me to defend what is mine.

John Isbell

Weapons are a manifestation of are right to life.If you have the right to life, you have the right to protect or defend that life.When government seeks to deny you the right to protect yourself, they also mean to deny you the right to life.The only way to keep government from denying you the right to life is to own guns.The governments of the world all believe that government reps have a right to own guns, they just don’t want their citizens to be able to own guns.They think they have more rights than you do.YOU might think you are… Read more »

Wesley

This just makes me SICK to my stomach! The tyrannical Australian government truly have them enslaved, These gun control measures does nothing but to criminalize their citiz….ermmm I mean Subjects.

John

Now if I could only preach to those who are not “members of the choir”?

Buck Crosby

I am PROUD to say I have contributed to all the orgs. you named plus several others And I am retired on a fixed income . I have always served my country , first in Vietnam and now with as much political aid as I can .

Ed

I joined Gun Owners of America rather than the others, because they support no compromise, and have a well functioning means for constituents to directly contact elected officials and explain to them exactly what their job is as our hired agents. GOA’s record of influencing politicians to do the right thing concerning our 2nd Amendment is excellent, better than NRA’s by far…

Paul

Do we want this country to be like Australia, well if you do then give up your guns and then you can feel safer, or will you? The only reason why we even have any of the freedoms that we have today is because of our guns, IF we give them up then what is going to stop the government from telling people what they can have and what they can eat or anything else. We are already living under the most oppressive government that this country has ever seen, Take away our guns and what we would wind up… Read more »

Hopalong

This is a half way free country. I will choose if and when,to whom. I will send money to. Now you are looking like GESTAPO.