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Gun laws in Australia are predominantly within the jurisdiction of Australian states and territories, with the importation of guns regulated by the federal government.In the last two decades of the 20th century, following several high-profile killing sprees, the federal government coordinated more restrictive firearms legislation with all state governments.
Sub-machine-guns. F1 submachine gun (9×19mm Parabellum) Owen Gun (9×19mm Parabellum) Sterling submachine gun (used by Australian SAS troopers in Vietnam) CAR-15 (5.56 calibre) (used by Australian SAS troopers) General-purpose machine gun. M60 machine gun (7.62 calibre) Infantry-support. L16 81mm Mortar; M2A1-7 flamethrower; Anti-personnel
John Crook, has written or edited many articles and booklets, self-published under the banner of Gun Control Australia, the last in 2003. [3] GCA maintains a website and occasionally features in media reports on gun law issues. At its height in the mid-1990s, its spokespersons were very prominent in media discussions and conferences on gun ...
This is a list of Australian magazines including those that are no longer published. ... (1964–1970), ... The Australian Soldiers' Magazine; Navy News (Australia)
An Australian variant of the Accuracy International Arctic Warfare, it is the standard-issue sniper rifle in the Australian Army and is chambered for 7.62×51mm. It replaced the Parker Hale Model 82 rifle in the late 1990s. Manufactured under licence in Australia by Thales Australia. AW50F United Kingdom: Anti-materiel rifle.50 BMG
An Australian soldier manning the machine gun while on guard duty in Borneo during 1965. The Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation was fought from 1962 to 1966 between the British Commonwealth and Indonesia over the creation of the Federation of Malaysia, with the Commonwealth attempting to safeguard the security of the new state.
Australia's first guns were landed from HMS Sirius and a small earthen redoubt built, near the present-day Macquarie Place, to command the approaches to Sydney Cove. The deployment of these guns represents the origins of artillery in Australia. These and subsequent defences, as well as field guns, were operated by marines and the soldiers of ...
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