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on July 31, 2015 in World News

The National Rifle Association attacks Australian gun laws

The National Rifle Association attacks Australian gun laws AMERICA’S powerful gun lobby has Australia in its firing line. The National Rifle Association has criticised the land down under for its “Orwellian” gun laws instituted following the Port Arthur massacre in 1996. In a provocatively-titled article, Australia: There Will Be Blood, the NRA disputes whether the gun buyback scheme and ban on semiautomatic weapons actually helped Australia reduce rates of violent crime. There was a “growing consensus” among impartial researchers that disarming Australian citizens did not make them safer, the association’s America’s 1st Freedom magazine said. US President Barack Obama recently… View Article

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