Firearms in Australia: The Tension Between Ownership and Control
The massacre in Port Arthur in Tasmania on 28 April 1996 was the impetus for the Howard government to pass laws to restrict the ownership of firearms in Australia. But the tension between the ability to own firearms and the...
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