Chicago White Sox’s Liam Hendricks, an Australian, criticized U.S. gun policy on July 4, claiming it is easier to get a firearm than it is to get a driver’s license.
The much-heralded Australian gun confiscation scheme of the late 1990s failed to disarm criminals to such a degree that Australia is going after guns again, beginning in July of this year.
Two decades after Australia confiscated hundreds of thousands of guns via mandatory government-sponsored buybacks, the Sydney Morning Herald reports that “scores of domestic violence offenders” are getting their guns back in Victoria.
Politifact misses that Hillary Clinton’s statement that Australia’s gun ban is “worth considering” came about a minute after “Australia’s a good example, Canada’s a good example, the UK is a good example” of how “stricter gun laws” were implemented following a high profile gun crime.
On April 22 Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke to a Pennsylvania audience known for ties to hunting and shooting sports and said, “We can’t ignore the Second Amendment.”
Former PM John Howard says Australia needs to undertake a “sensible strengthening” of the gun ban imposed by his government in 1996.
