http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-28/australia-has-'more-guns-than-before-port-arthur-massacre'/7366360
Then prime minister John Howard responded to the massacre with a
National Firearms Agreement that introduced tough gun ownership laws and
a buy-back scheme.
However, Associate Professor Philip Alpers
from the University of Sydney said "the million guns destroyed after
Port Arthur have been replaced with 1,026,000 new ones".
"By 2015
the arms trade had broken all previous records, and last financial year
Australia ported 104,000 firearms," said Associate Professor Alpers,
founding director of GunPolicy.org.
He said the 1996 firearms laws
resulted in a "gun swap" as banned rapid-fire rifles and shotguns were
replaced with newly imported single-shot firearms.
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