Posted March 31, 2016 11:47 am by Comments

By Gregory Smith

SellingTheSecondAmendment.com

Sometimes anti-gunners admit the truth. In this opinion piece, the editor admits gun control does not work.

The guns that criminals possess can be divided into three categories, namely, standard types of rifles and shotguns, pistols, and military style semi-automatic firearms (MSSAs) which possess magazines that can hold in excess of seven cartridges. The British public lost their chance to own pistols following the Dunblane massacre, just as the Australian public lost their chance to own MSSA weapons following the Port Arthur massacre. In New Zealand, it is possible to own pistols and MSSA firearms, via a more rigorous licensing system than for standard firearms. It is because of the stricter licensing that we know that there are 36,000 pistols and 7800 MSSAs. All of these are registered with the police.

In terms of originating from an overseas supply, smuggling over the border is possible. The global trade in illegal firearms is estimated to be about NZ$1.5 billion per year. Although the overlap between an illegal trade in guns and drugs is clear in other parts of the world, a clear linkage is not evident in Australasia as our borders are not as porous as elsewhere. A more common route of direct …Read the Rest

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