Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] princessnorah 2 points 3 months ago

As mentioned already, the type of gun matters a lot. Not mention of how many are semi auto, but I am guessing it won't be many.

As far as I'm aware, semi-auto guns are illegal to own, aren't they?

[-] Dimand@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

You can get them with the right licence. It's only for professional hunters I believe but I have never looked into details. They are rightfully much harder to get than a typical class A/B licence.

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

Category C (semi auto .22LR + miss-categorised shotguns) is for farmers.
Category D (centre-fire semi auto + miss-categorised shotguns) is for specialist pest controllers.

Professional hunters tend to use Category B (manually cycled bolt/lever/pump centre-fire).

You're not wrong, I just wanted to add more info.

There'd be like a thousand people that qualify in the entire country for a real Category D.

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