Anyone know if Australian citizens can carry weapons as the law allows here in most of our states?
I was in Oz exactly one year ago, i would have had cops called on me if i wore even a leatherman multi tool out in the open. Only legal way you dan even carry a tool or tool knife was if you were a tradesmen. I’m not joking, its a totally disarmed country. Only outside of the big smoke cities and out in the bush will you find folks more personally armed.
Its a paranoid socialist country thats going to die if it doesn’t man up and admit its nanny state laws are a failure.
Some people do carry guns but very very few, and everyone knows its. I won’t go back to Oz because i feel its becoming a much less safer place.
Getting a handgun licence isn't that difficult, but even if you have one, you're only supposed to carry a firearm if you have specific reason to consider yourself under particular threat. It is possible to get a more generalised permit to carry a firearm for personal protection, but they are rarely issued except to security guards (and some people have been known to get security licences for the purpose).
If a licenced person used a firearm to stop a serious incident, the police in many cases would probably not look too hard at precisely why they happened to have a weapon to hand, but if they chose to, some serious charges could be laid. And they'd better have really done everything right.
The same rules apply to anything that could be classed as a weapon - although there's a lot more 'reasonable excuses' (such as needing it for work) that can be used with other things than there are with firearms.
They are about as bad as NYC to my knowledge.