Experts Claim It’s Quite Easy To Get Firearms Illegally In Australia

By Tom Knighton

For a while now, a number of anti-gun activists have been calling for Australian-style gun control for the United States. They want us to ban entire categories of guns and make it virtually impossible for law-abiding citizens to get firearms, all in an effort to supposedly curb violence.

Gun rights proponents counter with the fact that those who commit violence are generally not getting their guns legally anyway. This is backed up by a Department of Justice report.

But the question really is, just how effective is Australia’s gun control? Apparently, it’s not.

A recent mass shooting in Darwin, Australia found a convicted criminal in possession with a pump-action shotgun. It seems that finding a gun in Australia isn’t all that difficult.

How did the accused Darwin gunman, parolee Ben Hoffmann, get his hands on a shotgun and allegedly kill four people?

Likely with relative ease — according to the public health professor behind the world’s largest catalogue of evidence on gun violence, firearm law and gun control.

The 12-gauge pump action shotgun was seized at the time of Hoffman’s arrest, and police later confirmed its serial number matched a weapon stolen in 1997.

That scenario — a long-armed illicit firearm …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms