Guns Seized Down Under
Posted by FirearmsTruth on August 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Australia is another country that has extremely strict gun laws. According to an August 2007 report, only about 5.2 percent of Australian adults own a firearm. Buying a gun requires a Permit to Obtain. In other words firearms are hard to get, and this should make the land down under safer, at least that is the anti-firearm rhetoric. Obviously if guns are hard to obtain, criminals can’t possibly get guns is the claim. But ABC News (as in the Australian Broadcast Company) is reporting that there has been a large seizure of illegal firearms.
“Police say they were staggered to find more than 60 illegal guns in a storage container in Sydney’s south-west overnight.”
Among the guns found in this raid were several weapons that can’t be legally owned by anyone in the country including a sub-machinegun. The New South Wales police issued a full press release that included this passage:
“A Heckler & Koch MP5 9mm submachine gun, currently used by armed forces and law enforcement units in more than 40 countries, was among the weapons found.”
So how did Australia’s strict laws exactly keep these illegal guns from coming into that country?
