So Now, Australia’s Gun Laws Are ‘Riddled With Loopholes’?

Australia has some of the strictest gun control laws in the entire world. These are, of course, the laws that we’ve been told we need to pass here. We hear it to some degree or another after every mass shooting. Some were even saying this after Brown, only to get shut up hard following Bondi Beach.

But now, after the shooting that shattered the illusion that those laws keep people safe, we’re getting the narrative push that is required before officials can really get people behind new gun laws.

They have to show that the old laws weren’t really that strict in the first place.

After Australia’s deadliest mass shooting in 1996, the country rushed in some of the world’s toughest gun laws, including mandatory licensing and background checks, as well as registration of every firearm.

But a winding back of those laws, failure to update them with the internet age and growing complacency with background checks may have made it easier for two suspects behind Sunday’s shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach to acquire weapons, gun safety experts said.

Reeling from the attack that killed 15 people, Australia is now questioning the effectiveness of laws that have become a point of national pride. Australia typically has fewer gun deaths per year than the U.S. has in a day, a statistic many Australians credit the gun laws with.

In effect, the laws are a patchwork system run by the eight state and territory police forces, negotiated by the federal government after the 1996 attack in Port Arthur, Tasmania, that killed 35 people. Tweaks by some states in the years since have relaxed the oversight, enabling people to acquire more weapons with less supervision, the experts said.

According to the authorities, the older shooter at Bondi, named as Sajid Akram, 50, who was shot dead by police, received his gun licence in 2023 and had six legally owned weapons that he and his son allegedly used in the attack. In 2008, the state of New South Wales removed a mandatory 28-day cooling-off period when a person with one gun wanted more; most states have done similar.

“The idea was that for each subsequent gun, the scrutiny should be more intense because it should be more difficult,” said Rebecca Peters, a gun control advocate who advised the Australian government on the 1996 law.

“Imagine if he’d had to have a 28-day waiting period for each of those guns. He wouldn’t have, because New South Wales has abandoned it,” added Peters. The state government, which has said it will urgently meet to consider new gun laws, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

He’d have still had enough firepower to kill 15 innocent people, you twit.

Plus, he started accumulating guns in 2023. That’s more than enough time to have purchased every single firearm he obtained.

Why would anyone think that a waiting period would actually stop someone who committed a terrorist attack years after obtaining firearms? This is the “thinking” of someone with such a profound learning disability that they’d have been institutionalized for life back in the day. It’s ridiculous to think any such thing.

But this is one of the “loopholes” we’re being told riddled the entire gun control scheme and must be changed immediately because, without that “loophole,” this attack wouldn’t have happened.

It’s absolute male bovine excrement, and anyone with more than two neurons firing can see that as plain as day.

It’s not about actual loopholes, though. They need to make the case that the law was totally insufficient, and not because the law was never going to stop a determined terrorist attacker. They can’t tell the people of Australia that there’s nothing they can do. Politicians don’t do well when they tell outraged voters such things.

So, they pretend that the removal of a 28-day waiting period and other trivial stuff was the real problem. Then they make their opponents look responsible while ginning up outrage and demand for new laws.

It’s an old playbook that works throughout the democratic world.

Nothing has changed on that front. Australia is just where it’s happening now, much like how it happens here every single time there’s a tragedy.

Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to lie about gun owners and the Second Amendment. 

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