(juxtaposed a bit): now The NRA's most recent attack on Australian gun laws appears to have been prompted by Obama's raising of their success in an interview...
.. The article warns that US President Barack Obama might support Australian-style gun reforms. "This is the gun-control regime that our president applauds for its decisive resolve. It robbed Australians of their right to self-defence and empowered criminals, all without delivering the promised reduction in violent crime,"
"Australia's gun confiscation is indeed a lesson to America: It is a sign of what is to come if we hold our rights lightly."
Australia's gun laws – particularly those introduced by the Howard government after the Port Arthur massacre..
Hopefully the newer aussie govt will complain like daryl Williams did to Charlton heston (still holding his guns in his hands?)
then: 22/3/2000 Anti-gun campaigners apalled by NRA adverts .. American television viewers have been treated to an apocalyptic vision of Australia as a land where citizens cower indoors while criminals run riot in the streets.
The video, produced by America's National Rifle Association, chose emotive pictures of a law and order rally in South Australia to make the case that tough new gun control laws, in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre, have left citizens in Australia unable to defend themselves from a veritable crime wave.
Today, Attorney-General Daryl Williams wrote to NRA President, former screen star Charlton Heston, to protest against what he described as a misleading campaign.
{Australian} Federal Attorney- General Daryl Williams last night fired off a personal letter to the Hollywood legend {Charlton heston} telling him to retract his accusations Australia is experiencing a crime wave.
Heston, president of the US National Rifle Association, has emerged as the lead villain in an NRA campaign portraying Australian crime spiralling out of control because the government took away citizens' guns.
"There are many things Australia can learn from the United States," Mr Williams tells Heston. "How to manage firearms is not one of them." {so also said PM john howard}
The NRA campaign, on late night television and on its website, incorrectly claims gun-related crime increased significantly after the gun buy-back sparked by the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.
"One gets somewhat outraged when an organisation based in the US – where there are something like 11,000 firearms homicides in one year – tells us our gun laws have failed," Mr Williams said.
"Now that you have the facts, I request that you withdraw immediately the misleading information from your latest campaign," Mr Williams demanded.
"I find it quite offensive the NRA would use the very successful gun law reforms introduced in 1996 as a basis for promoting firearms ownership in the US," https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.showbiz.gossip/6z7f367mlKc
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