Australia: Federal Court finds Pauline Hanson racially discriminated against Mehreen Faruqi in 'angry personal attack' tweet

[Regiomontanus]

Maybe, I can see how if a dictator came to visit it would be useful to have the political freedom to tell them to go back where they came from. But telling some other random non-white person off the street to go back to their own country is at the least stupid in my view.

How hard/easy would it be for me to buy a shotgun, for home defense, in Australia today?

 

[Lyndon]

I would go so far as to say 'sarcastically' they're used to having no freedoms being Australia was essentially a prison Colony ruled by the British.

Fortunately however I think a lot of Aussies value freedom just as much as we do in the US , but truth be told , let's see how it goes down there because I'm certain we'll be seeing it up here before long more than we already have experienced as far as freedom of speech goes.

Australia became a prison colony because the previous British prison colony, America, had declared independence, fact

 

[danieldemol]

How hard/easy would it be for me to buy a shotgun, for home defense, in Australia today?

Unless you were a farmer buying it for a different purpose I would say impossible ETA ie legally impossible.

Perhaps a cocaine baron could afford an illegal firearm.

 

[Regiomontanus]

Unless you were a farmer buying it for a different purpose I would say impossible ETA ie legally impossible.

Perhaps a cocaine baron could afford an illegal firearm.

I imagine there must be quite the black market?

 

[danieldemol]

I imagine there must be quite the black market?

'Australia has some of the strongest firearms controls in the world.

However, criminals use the grey market and dark web to traffick illegal weapons for use in criminal activity. This is a serious national threat and a significant safety concern for the Australian community.

Weapons trafficking has links to:

aviation crime
money laundering and financial crime
serious and organised crime
terrorism.
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) estimates more than 260,000 firearms are in the illicit market.

The market for illegal weapons is driven in part by:

drug traffickers
organised crime rings
outlaw motorcycle gangs
terrorist groups.
While these groups have direct links to illicit firearms, other criminals get and use firearms illegally through various means.


Some weapons were not handed in as part of the buyback scheme when Australia tightened its gun laws in 1996. Some are stolen from firearm dealers. Some are illegally manufactured, even using 3D printing. They may also be illegally imported.'


Source: Illegal firearms and weapons | Australian Federal Police.

Basically unless you are a member of organised crime they are generally prohibitively expensive for the common folk in my view