Tag: gun control

  • Millions of guns destroyed after Port Arthur replaced by 1.02M new ones

    Millions of guns destroyed after Port Arthur replaced by 1.02M new ones

    It has been 20 years since Martin Bryant walked into a cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania and used semiautomatic weapons to shoot 35 people dead and injure 23 more. It was the third worst massacre by a single person in history and prompted extensive reforms to gun regulations in Australia. The Howard government banned all automatic and semi-automatic…