Why Australia Has Had Only One Mass Shooting Since 1996

Adele Peters, Fast Company
Wed, 05/25/2022 - 11:00pm

Australia’s government banned automatic and semiautomatic guns, created a national firearms registry and made a 28-day-long waiting period for gun purchases. Twenty-six years ago, on a Sunday afternoon at a café in Australia, a man ate lunch before pulling a semiautomatic rifle out of his duffel bag and shooting the strangers sitting at the table next to him.

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