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3 lis 2017 · Given the majority of firearm homicide offenders in Australia are unlicensed, this provides a plausible explanation for why the reforms do not appear to have affected male victimisation...
4 paź 2017 · In 2002, Australia further tightened gun laws, restricting the caliber, barrel length and capacity for sport shooting handguns. Since 1996, the number and rate of homicides — defined as murder...
2 mar 2018 · Australia’s 1996 National Firearms Agreement (NFA) banned several types of firearms and resulted in the government buying hundreds of thousands of the banned weapons from their owners. This essay analyses the evidence from studies examining the effect of removing so many weapons from the community.
1 maj 2016 · The current study used systematic literature search methods to identify evaluation-focused studies examining the impacts of legislative reform on firearm homicide in Australia, a country that made significant changes to its gun laws in the mid-1990s. Five studies met the inclusion criteria.
Before 1996, Australia regulated firearms more strictly than the United States but not as strictly as other democracies such as Japan, Canada, and some European countries (Swain, 1996). As in the United States, gun laws varied across the country because gun control was primarily a matter for the states and territories.
21 cze 2024 · Australia is known for strict gun laws implemented after the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, but states and territories still have different ways of treating gun ownership. Here's a guide.
7 wrz 2021 · Overall rates of firearm injuries were 4.1 per 100 000 males and 0.3 per 100 000 females; the overall rate was higher in outer regional/rural/remote areas (3.8 per 100 000) than in major cities (1.6 per 100 000) or inner regional areas (1.8 per 100 000).
