>As for Australian gun control, they banned all semi-autos - that's hardly within reason. I'm Australian and I support a ban on semi-automatic guns, except for

>As for Australian gun control, they banned all semi-autos - that's hardly within reason. I'm Australian and I support a ban on semi-automatic guns, except for certain people (pest control, etc). I don't see why it's too much of a burden for a civilian with a gun to have to spend a second to cock it. Maybe you've heard of Port Arthur, the event that motivated the ban? >From the first shot, all of these events took approximately fifteen seconds, during which Bryant fired seventeen shots, killed twelve people, and wounded ten more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia)#Broad_Arrow_Caf%C3%A9_murders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australi... Maybe some of them would have survived if we slowed him down a bit.