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Australian Gun Laws

Australia's stringent national laws as an example of effective gun violence reduction

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Jan 13, 2026

How did Australia’s 1996 gun reforms change the frequency and lethality of mass shootings there?

Australia’s 1996 National Firearms Agreement (NFA) coincided with a dramatic interruption in mass-shooting events — 13 mass killings in the 18 years before the Port Arthur massacre and none in the two...

Jan 13, 2026

why are mass shootings more common in the US?

The United States experiences mass shootings at rates far above peer high‑income countries because of a unique combination of extraordinarily high civilian gun ownership and relatively permissive fire...

Jan 13, 2026

What evidence links specific gun policies (e.g., assault‑weapon bans, universal background checks, red‑flag laws) to reduced mass‑shooting fatalities?

The academic record links certain gun-policy tools to reductions in mass‑shooting fatalities more convincingly than others: bans on high‑capacity magazines (HCMs) and stronger permitting/background-ch...

Jan 8, 2026

How do gun control laws in the US compare to those in other developed countries?

The United States combines relatively permissive federal and state gun rules with extraordinarily high civilian gun prevalence and firearm death rates compared with other high-income democracies . Oth...

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