Caps on how many firearms someone can own and only granting licences to Australian citizens are among the slated new laws.
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Firearms policy is more complex than people often allow, and evidence about what works to reduce gun violence is also not clear-cut.
Did the government-funded gun buybacks introduced after the Port Arthur massacre have “no effect” in reducing gun deaths in Australia, as an audience member claimed on Q&A? Let’s look at the evidence.
3D printing still exists in a legal grey area. This area is slowly being defined as courts prosecute the first cases but, is current copyright and criminal law keeping up with the technology?
For the first time in 20 years, Australia’s national arsenal of private guns is larger than it was before the Port Arthur massacre.
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Lecturer, Adelaide University
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Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research; Adjunct Professor, School of Social Science, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Professor of Criminology, Deakin University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University