Gun Policy News
8 January 2003
Herald Sun (Melbourne)
A major gunmaker is flooding the Victorian market with 2000 semiautomatic pistols ahead of a national ban on the weapons.
The $2 million shipment of Italian-made Beretta guns arrived last week.
The 2000 weapons represent almost a quarter of the total number of handguns imported last financial year.
At least three of the Beretta models are on a list of weapons the Federal Government intends to ban after last year's Monash University shootings.
Beretta plans to sell... (GunPolicy.org)