Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Nov 12^th, 2024 at 7:12pm:


Australia 0.83 (2022)



https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/murder-rate-by-country

philperth2010 wrote on Nov 12^th, 2024 at 7:28pm:

Which proves that Australia is a very law abiding country and that there is no need for tougher gun laws, except for the need for political parties to be seen to be doing something.

Majority in U.S. Continues to Favor Stricter Gun Laws

philperth2010 wrote on Nov 18^th, 2024 at 9:39am:

Can’t answer the question?
Phil, don’t iet your notions of being of inferior intellect stop you from having a go.

Where did you get the nonsense that America allows felons and the mentally ill to purchase weapons?
Where did you get the idea that the public can purchase assault weapons?
Very few US citizens can legally own assault weapons and then only after very strict vetting procedures before a license can be issued.

Bye the way, did you know that the NFA bans knives which have a sheath?
Sounds crazy.

Gun show loophole

The gun show loophole is the absence of laws mandating background checks for certain private sales of firearms in the United States. The term gun show loophole is used in political contexts without a single well-accepted definition some cases it can refer to "a situation in which many sellers dealing in firearms offer them for sale at gun shows without becoming licensed or subjecting purchasers to background checks", while in others it refers more generally to the broader private sale exemption in U.S. federal gun law, which allows non-commercial gun sales by private parties without a background check (regardless of whether these sales are at gun shows or not).

Regardless of the context of a sale, private sales to buyers known or suspected of being prohibited from possessing firearms and "straw purchases" by others on behalf of prohibited purchasers are illegal. The background check system and the private sale exemption were established by the 1993 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, commonly known as the Brady Bill.

Under the Brady Bill anyone not "engaged in the business" of selling firearms is not required to obtain a background check on buyers seeking to purchase firearms from a seller's private collection. Along with federal laws for firearms purchases, there are also local and state laws regulating background check requirements for the purchase of firearms.

The Lapsed Federal Assault Weapons Ban

In 1994, Congress adopted the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which made it generally “unlawful for a person to manufacture, transfer, or possess” a semiautomatic assault weapon. The law was adopted with a sunset clause, however, and expired in 2004, despite overwhelming public support for its renewal. Thus, semi-automatic, military style weapons that were formerly regulated under federal law are now legal unless banned by state or local law.

Yes, assault weapons have been used in many mass shootings in the United States, including some of the deadliest:

Las Vegas, NV: In 2017, a shooter used more than 20 assault-style weapons and 12 bump-fire stocks, killing 59 people and injuring over 500

Orlando, FL: In 2016, a Sig Sauer MCX assault rifle killed 49 people and injured 58

Sutherland Springs, TX: In 2017, a Ruger AR-556 rifle killed 26 churchgoers

Newtown, CT: In 2012, a Bushmaster semiautomatic assault rifle killed 26 people, including 20 children

El Paso, TX: An AK-47-style weapon killed 22 people at a Walmart

Uvalde, TX: In 2022, a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School left 21 people killed and 17 injured

Those were not assault weapons

Examples of mass shootings involving assault weapons
and/or large capacity magazines
• Uvalde, Texas— AR-15-style weapon killed 19 children; 2 teachers
• Buffalo, New York— AR-15-style rifle killed 10 shoppers
• Boulder, Colorado—Ruger AR-556 semi-automatic killed 10
people including a police officer
• Dayton, Ohio— AR-15-style weapon equipped with a 100-round
ammunition magazine to kill nine people and injure over 25 others
in less than 30 seconds at a local bar
• El Paso, Texas— AK-47-style weapon killed 22 at a Walmart.
• Gilroy, Calif.— AK-47-style weapon wounded 17 and killed three
including a 13-year-old girl and 6-year-old
• Thousand Oaks, Calif.— Glock 21 .45-caliber pistol and several
high-capacity ammunition magazines killed 12.
• Pittsburgh, Pa.— AR-15-styleweapon killed 11 worshipers. The
deadliest anti-Semitic attack committed against the Jewish
community in America.
• Parkland, Fla.— M&P15 AR-15 military style rifle; killed 17
students and educators.
• Sutherland Springs, Texas— Ruger AR-556 Rifle; killed 26
churchgoers.
• Las Vegas, Nev.—Shooter with more than 20 assault style weapons
and 12 bump-fire stocks killed 58 people and wound over 500 others.
• Orlando, Fla.— Sig Sauer MCX assault rifle killed 49 and wounded
58. The deadliest incident of violence against LGBT people in our
nation’s history.
• Newtown, Conn.— Bushmaster semiautomatic assault killed 26
people including 20 children.
• Aurora, Colo.— Smith & Wesson M&P15 semiautomatic assaultstyle rifle with a 100-round ammunition drum and other firearms
killed 12 people and injured 58.

"The "AR" in AR-15 stands for "ArmaLite Rifle",[11] and "AR-15" is most-commonly used to refer only to the civilian semi-automatic variants of the rifle which lack the fully automatic function.[12] A common misconception is that "AR" is an abbreviation for "assault rifle" or "automatic rifle",[13][14][15] perhaps because of the weapon's inclusion in the Federal Assault Weapons Ban in 1994, or because the ArmaLite AR-15 was originally designed to replace the M14 rifle in the Vietnam War.[16]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15%E2%80%93style_rifle

The difference between what you just "KNOW", and what is fact.