Comment on Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours agoAs mentioned already, the type of gun matters a lot. Not mention of how many are semi auto, but I am guessing it won’t be many.
As far as I’m aware, semi-auto guns are illegal to own, aren’t they?
Dimand@aussie.zone 19 hours ago
You can get them with the right licence. It’s only for professional hunters I believe but I have never looked into details. They are rightfully much harder to get than a typical class A/B licence.
Mountaineer@aussie.zone 17 hours ago
Category C (semi auto .22LR + miss-categorised shotguns) is for farmers.
Category D (centre-fire semi auto + miss-categorised shotguns) is for specialist pest controllers.
Professional hunters tend to use Category B (manually cycled bolt/lever/pump centre-fire).
You’re not wrong, I just wanted to add more info.
There’d be like a thousand people that qualify in the entire country for a real Category D.