It's the same in Australia, we all have our guns, they 'never' took them away. When they brought in gun control in 1996 all our guns, rifles, crossbows only had to be registered, and we had to get a permit to use them. You can buy any gun you want only it has to be registered, and you have to have a permit to use the caliber, that's it!
I can buy an AK-47, glock, missile launcher, bazooka etc, any gun I frigging want. But I have to the caliber permits to use them and they have to be registered. It's like driving a car, you can't drive an unregistered car, or drive with out a license, it's illegal.
Also it's illegal to drive a passenger bus, taxi or a semitrailer, with a manual or automatic car drivers license. You have to get the right drivers license to drive a bus, taxi or a semitrailer and these vehicles have to be registered, to legally drive on the road. It's the same with guns, I have the permits to use several different caliber of guns, If I only had a permit just to legally use a shot gun, I legally could only buy and use shot guns.
I can't buy or use a AK-47 just with a shot gun or hand gun permit it's illegal, I have to have the right caliber permit. You just go to any shooting gallery and tell them you want a permit for a AK-47 or similar caliber. They show you hands on how to use it load it and shoot it properly and you have to pass required knowledge questions, before you get the permit.
It might take 5-10 hands on lessons and learn the knowledge questions before taking the permit test to get it, just like when getting a drivers license. You have to fully educationally know literally everything about the caliber and how to safely handle shoot, load,lock and store before they give you any caliber permit to buy, own or use it. All gun control is, removing all unregistered guns off the streets, and can't buy or use a gun unless you have a caliber permit for the guns you want to freely buy own and have.
That why they always keep mentioning Australian gun laws. The only difference, if Australian gun laws were brought into the USA, those one tooth fat hillbilly's with jello for a brain and a rebel flag tattoo can't just walk into a gun store, and purchase a gun without a caliber permit to show they can legally use the caliber they want to buy. If they have a permit and the money they can freely buy any gun their permit legally allows, and the gun is fully registered before leaving the store.
That's the only difference. The only people that would be pissed off about gun control, is crooks illegally trading unregistered gun, junkies who steal guns to pawn or sell it for drugs and people without permits to legally have certain caliber guns in there possession. Being registered all guns can be easily traced if they are stolen, unregistered, or being legally bought and sold illegally to people without permits.
It doesn't remove your constitutional rights to own a gun/guns, it clean up the criminal activity with removing unregistered guns off the streets and having the right caliber gun in the right hands of people who educationally know how to fully use them properly, without shooting themselves, or any one else accidentally.
In Switzerland, all current and former members of the military are required to keep their military firearm in case of national emergency. So yes, you can register all the full-auto weapons that the military issued me.
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