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Firearms in Australia: a Parliamentary Library Guide to Electronic Resources
9 August 2007
Parliamentary Library, Federal Parliament of Australia
Introduction
On 28 April 1996, 35 people were killed and 18 others were wounded at Port Arthur in Tasmania by an assailant using a semi-automatic rifle. In response, The Australasian Police Ministers' Council convened a special meeting on 10 May 1996 and agreed to a national plan for the regulation of firearms — the Nationwide Agreement on Firearms. This agreement banned self-loading rifles and self-loading and pump-action shotguns, introduced a nationwide... (GunPolicy.org)
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