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Fact Check: Where do Australians get illegal guns?


Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie claims most guns used in crime are illegally imported rather than coming from licensed owners.
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The Pacific region lives up to its name with disarming success


Recent headlines are clear: our world is a fearful place, spattered with blood, angry men and loose guns. But not everywhere. One sprawling region has largely avoided, and at times even reversed, the steady proliferation of illegal firearms and death by gunshot. Twelve out of 16 Pacific Islands Forum nations are patrolled by routinely unarmed...
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Fact Check: Bob Katter wrong on number of gun deaths after Port Arthur


Katter's Australian Party leader Bob Katter claims gun-related deaths rose after the introduction of John Howard's National Firearms Agreement in 1996.
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The big melt: how one democracy changed after scrapping a third of its firearms


Australia's massive experiment in gun control saw a million firearms, or one third of the nation's private arsenal destroyed, then a million new, but different guns imported. Sixteen years after firearm laws were tightened, gun homicide remains 50-60% lower, and the nation has not seen another mass shooting.