There are actually more guns now owned illegally in Australia than before the ban
Citation?
Post a link, I mean how would any body know? It's not like somebody with an illegal firearm would tell the authorities. So how would someone estimate this, the country has no land boarders and every gun would have to be smuggled in by air and no there aren't too many passenger ships these days and cargo vessels usually come from Asia, where there are few guns.
I guess illegal firearms should be reflected in the gun violence statistics
Also:
PolitiFact | Viral post is wrong about Australia’s gun laws, violent crime statistics
Facebook posts
stated on September 21, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Says after Australia passed a "new law" that forced gun owners to give up over 640,000 firearms, the country saw a dramatic increase in homicides, assaults and robberies.
Viral post is wrong about Australia’s gun laws, violent crime statistics
A photograph that shows a truck unloading a heap of firearms
has been shared thousands of times on Facebook.
The image is usually displayed alongside text that claims Australia passed a "new law" that forced gun owners to surrender 640,381 firearms and that, one year later, statistics show a national surge in violent crimes such as homicides, assaults and robberies.
This chain message has been going around the internet since
at least 2009.
The statistics didn’t add up then and still don’t today.
The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about
our partnership with Facebook.)
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Strict firearm laws reduce gun deaths: here’s the evidence | Christchurch shooting | The Guardian
Strict firearm laws reduce gun deaths: here’s the evidence
New Zealand will reform laws after the Christchurch massacre but how has gun control worked in other countries?
The Australian situation
Following the Port Arthur incident, Australia implemented the National Firearms Agreement (NFA).
Prohibited firearms that were handed in under the Australian government’s buy-back scheme after the Port Arthur massacre. Photograph: David Gray/Reuters
New, uniform state gun laws banned rapid-fire guns from civilian ownership except under certain, restricted licences, and established a government buyback of semi-automatic and pump-action rifles and shotguns.
Another requirement was that all guns must be individually registered, with all gun sales tracked to record changes in ownership. Previously, registration varied by state and gun type. The laws reduced guns in Australia by about one-fifth, with more than 700,000 guns removed and destroyed.
There have been a number of studies published on the impact of the NFA on firearm-related deaths in Australia. According to a
2011 summary of the research by the Harvard Injury Control Research Centre, a number of studies suggested beneficial effects from the law changes, with a reduction in mass shootings, and a reduction in the rate of firearm-related deaths (both homicides and suicides) overall.
Researchers from the University of Sydney and Macquarie University in
2006,
2016 and
2018 looked at the number of mass killings before and after the NFA, and also whether the law changes affected the number of firearm-related deaths. They found that there was a drop in the rate of firearm deaths – particularly with suicides – but were cautious about attributing this to the NFA with the methods they used.
Their research also showed that while there had been 13 mass shootings (using the definition of five or more people killed) in the 18 years before the law changes, there had been none in the 22 years following (though there was
one mass shooting involving seven members of one family at Margaret River in Western Australia in May 201
.
Modelling suggested that if shootings had continued at a similar rate as that prior to the NFA, then approximately 16 incidents would have been expected by February 2018.
