Goose wrote:

The Man wrote:

Goose wrote:

Australia has thousands of miles of coastline. With tens of thousands of places where a ship with black market cargo might make landfall.

All nations have borders.
Not all nations have our gun problem.
Something else is afoot.

 
Coastline is not as easy to illegally import over as a land border, plus population and demographics also come into play. What do you think is afoot?

Will.
We don't want to control who can obtain a gun.

 
Could be.  I don't know though.  I think keeping guns out of the wrong hands is a much more difficult task than any of us make it out to be.

The Man wrote:

Just Fred wrote:

The danger of semi-automatic weapons are add-ons that are totally legal that make them convient killing weapons when armed with large clips, bump fire mechanims, etc. 

Ok, ban those things.  I'm good with that.
 

 
Then you open up the black market. People building their own, transporting over national borders and selling on the streets. But hey, banning marijuana worked out well, no one buys it or uses it, so why not? ;)

The black market does makes it harder and costlier to procure such items--- which in turn is exactly what I for one would want to happen. Is there something wrong with that  ? 

We probably could get a lot of illegal armament on the black market. I see NO reason to not block certain things just because that perhaps they could be obtained on the black market.