There’s an election coming up in Australia. I haven’t blogged about it because other people are doing a much better job than I ever could. A special plug though, for Tom Vogelgesang, who is running for Senate on a libertarian platform and has the good judgement to run a blog, choose to study computer science…

A commenter on my earlier post on John “I hate guns” Howard wondered: “If Latham wins, will the public generally credit this issue?” Some shooters have a plan to try to make it an issue: You Can Send John Howard And Canberra A Message From NSW Shooters Stop victimising sporting shooters Crime control, not gun…

Matthew Yglesias and Mark Kleiman have both written about the Assault Weapons Ban. I agree with Yglesias that the ban doesn’t make sense since it bans weapons by name rather than by some characteristic that makes them dangerous. I’ve criticized the ban in Australia on semi-automatic long guns, but at least that was based on…

After reviving my first ever online post. I’ve dug up my first ever post on guns. Phil Ronzone posted this to soc.culture.australian: Of even more interest is the TREMENDOUSLY larger per capita rape numbers in the “non-violent peace loving” European counties. The Unites States at 26.30 is below such countries as Australia (90.82), West Germany…

Jason Soon has a series of posts on gun control in Australia here, here and here. I felt that the laws here before 1996 were about right and I do not think that the 1996 laws were a good idea. The 1996 gun buyback involved replacing semi-automatic long guns with ones that weren’t semi-autos. For…

Say Uncle suggests that I am “anti-gun” and implies that I “favor more gun control in the US”. I am not “anti-gun”. Here is a picture of me (on left) with a gun. Unless you think that Lott is some sort of gun, criticizing him is not being “anti-gun”. Nor do I favour more gun…

Ross Wilmoth writes: Thanks for the stats Tim. Do you think that the reduction between the 1975 and 1989 surveys could be due to them being either side of the registration legislation? In 1975 it wasn’t illegal to own a gun so long as you were licenced (in states which had licencing) but in 1989…

Mark Addinall writes: Tim Lambert writes: I looked in the reference you cite: “How Firearm Crime is Declining” It claims that the number of firearms owned in Australia has increased from about 2.5 million to about 4 million (Graph 1). I do not believe that “quadrupled” is the appropriate way to describe this increase. I…

“Stephen Heyer” writes: When confronted with the fact that “In the last 16 years the number of guns owned in Australia has quadrupled. The number of firearm deaths have dropped by 46% in that period and guns are being used less in crime.” What bothers me is that this bogus “fact” has been repeated several…