I need only refer to Monarto housing development not far from me. 17,000 houses for 44000 residents jammed in a paddock that is same size as my place. Supposed to build a few hundred houses last year but they have not built one. They fiddled around with infrastructure, water, power and things like that and ran out of money
Then the underlying problem of not enough skilled tradespeople to even do such a large scale project. Nobody wants to work anymore. It’s in my work, not enough skilled workers, it’s too hard, sit on the welfare do nothing instead. It’s not hard, just go at your own pace, it’s fun actually and you get to meet a lot of cool people, some a holes aswell but it all builds your character.
Hang on a minute they said 7.5 Billion dollars I can cut a deal on that. 3 billion dollars bring your own tent water and the toilet is the nearest bush. It’s already established
No, mostly depend on items (not retailers)many retailers won’t send any airsoft product to Australia because any product label airsoft will be seized by custom. Even I show them website of our Gelblaster relailer (showing them we are selling similar things here) but they won’t take the risk. Some will send us thing but will not label as airsoft products so it get through custom. Just like red dot sights and scopes, Australian customs may have notify customs of other countries that they will not accept any of those red dot sights and scopes. So they will be turn back by the customs of the original countries not even a chance of getting onto the plane.
Yep, that’s exactly pwhat I was trying to say.
The companies that have Airsoft in their name or in customs paperwork are automatically Flagged for inspection, regardless of the parts within being legal or not.
It’s up to the ABF to determine whether they let them through or have them seized, all depending on their mood that day it would seem!
That and you’d need to have an industrial grade 3D printer to be able to print with material strong enough to be used more than once effectively, and I’m pretty sure anyone with enough money to drop on one of those would probably find it easier to just smuggle an actual firearm into the country…
You guys would be surprised how easy the FGC9 is to build. The only tricky part is rifling the barrel but there’s a couple hundred machine that will do that… 3d printed guns are a potential problem but I suspect a small one compared to stolen or smuggled firearms. You still need to get your hands on ammo too
I saw an article from Australia Institute about gun control it is absolute biased.
“Australia Institute research shows there are now more guns in Australia than ever before. As of 2024, there are more than 4 million guns legally owned by the civilian population. This is 25 per cent more than before the Port Arthur shootings in 1996 when there were around 3 million guns”
"More than 2000 guns are stolen every year in Australia, based on data obtained from police. That’s one every 4 hours. Based on data the Australia Institute obtained from police in each state and territory, at least 9,000 guns have been stolen since 2020 and over 44,000 since 2000. Theft is the greatest single source of firearms hitting the black market, according to data from the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission.
There are more than 25 percent more cars on the road more than before the Port Arthur shootings in 1996 and cause a lot of traffic problems , should we buy back cars?
There are more than 25 percent more public toilets in Australia more than before the Port Arthur shootings in 1996 and some of them are producing some hygienic problems ( not clean enough and producing bad smell), should we cut them back?
I believe more than 2000 cars are stolen every year in Australia. I believe that’s more one every 4 hours. and used to commit a lot of crimes. Should we have car controls?
Number of guns is not important , more important is the one who own and use the guns. Limiting the import of guns (especially Gel Blasters)doesn’t make Australia safer. That particular Institute ( and some politician and members of government)seem to be don’t understand the basics.
The argument they used in the response I got from that Greens MP is that the number of firearms in circulation dropped substantially with the buyback they did in 96 or whenever it was.
If you graph the numbers over the following years yes it drops substantially but then immediately starts increasing again, obviously ppl are buying more, yet id you look at the number of incidents involving firearms over the same period of time guess what happened?.. It decreased, arguably because there were less guns in circulation, but it also didn’t increase with the new guns being bought, so their argument pretty much falls through.
Pretty sure this was from a Sydney University too that done this research.
Couldn’t see one for incidents, only deaths but notice a trend?..
Suicide I believe was the highest contributor which is a mental health issue not a firearms issue so that’s not a valid argument, yet they probably wouldn’t mention that in their argument anyway.
Of course the number dropped after 1996. They banned and restricted classes of firearms. By only 700,000. They only got 60,000 of 300,000, a certain type Keating imported handed in the buyback.
A lot of people used the buyback money went and bought a new firearm.
The numbers are not the problem. The operator is the problem. There is checks in my state for fit and proper person since 1977 and tightened 2015. Why did the other states not follow suit. That is the problem.
Those Bondi murderers should have stuck out like a sore thumb and instantly denied access. The system was not in place.
Well per capita though…
Population in 1996 was around 18 million with 3.2million guns…
Now approximately 28 million… with 4 million guns…
So if maths and facts are a thing…
One gun per 5.6 people pre Howard vs one per 7 people now.
So while there are more guns there are less people with them on average.
And one of the lowest rates of homicide by firearms in the world.
It was always an agenda, not a valid argument.
They wanted to be seen to do something without actually making any meaning change because that would involve actual work!
Once again the official figures place “gun deaths” in their graphs and pie charts without separating the ACTUAL firearms used in such statistics.
If they actually separated incidents involving stolen/illegal firearms from the figures of crimes committed by actual licensed owners and suicide events ………… then you would see a massive discrepancy in incidents between lawful licensed citizens and those committed by gangs/criminals that use illegal weapons.
As @DChapo ’s data shows, there’s absolutely NO link between the amount of LEGALLY registered weapons and firearm crimes.
But as always, push whatever skewed data they can to achieve their own agendas.
I was reading (somewhere) that 80% of firearms fatalities in Australia are in fact suicides - not homicides. I understand a large part of the firearms control/ban push comes from the mental health lobby (i.e., counselors/psychologists/psychiatrists - the latter being actual doctors who can prescribe medication).
Coupled with the fact Australia has a highly urbanised population, also higly concentrated in the capital cities (Queensland being the most decentralised state with larger regional centres), and it’s no particular surprise the ‘average’ Australian can’t see the reason for firearms possession outside of the police or defence force. I have seen that thinking for many many decades now.
How about we get rid of the tool instead of trying to fix the cause, that sounds like the easier and cheapest option.
And in saying that I literally had a customer not 10min ago tell me his son-in-law hung himself last night… How the fuck are you supposed to respond to that to begin with?
there is something seriously wrong, with the way this country is going.
The middle class is rapidly dissappearing…replaced with the "working poor’.
This is the USA model… a very small few get massive wealth…the rest suffer.
When average families, with 2 working parents, are struggling just to make ends meet, and pay the bills, something is seriously wrong.
My mates son just graduated as a junior doctor.
This was traditionally a "rich " profession…now its just the new middle class.
He’ll be able to afford a nice ( but normal) home, and a decent car…but wont be “rolling in it” , unless he specialises… and specialities are hard to get into.
GP’s dont make a motza…and lets not even start about tax…
Net result… a generation of average people, who see no hope of a decent future…
So, they give up, turn to alcohol / drugs…which leads to a downwards mental health/ life spiral… often with devestating consequences.
Once again, look at the states…
I don’t know what the answer is, but average aussies need to be able to feel there is a good future worth living…
I can cut a deal on that. 3 billion dollars bring your own tent water and the toilet is the nearest bush. It’s already established 
