I don’t know what a “bubble-headed booby” is but it don’t sound right! Didn’t y’all have gun confiscation after some Tasmanian shooting?
No. Or at least to absolutely nothing like the extent that Americans seem to have been told.
Take a look at this webpage - it's for an Australia gun shop, one of many located around the country (I normally share the website of the shop nearest my home when having these dicussions, but that's currently being revised and isn't showing most of its stock). Guns are really not that hard to get in Australia and over a million Australian civilians own millions of firearms.
What happened in the late 1990s after the Port Arthur Massacre certainly wasn't good in terms of gun rights - but it was nowhere near as bad as some people claim either. In essence, to own guns in Australia, you have to be licenced but virtually any law abiding citizen will have little difficulty getting a licence. Owning more than basic non semi-automatic hunting rifles and shotguns requires a higher level licence rather than a basic licence, which is a bit harder to get, as does owning a handgun, but again most people can do so it they want to - it just takes some time and paperwork. And there's also significant bureaucracy involved in buying firearms even if you are licenced (you have to fill out new forms for every single gun in advance).
But you can do - and many people do.
Some guns were confiscated post Port Arthur - but that was generally from people who, for some reason (normally an old criminal record) could not get a high level licence. At the same time a lot more guns were voluntarily surrendered in exchange for their fair market value in a massive government funded buyback - which is where the pictures of big piles of guns come from - most of the guns in those piles were still completely legal, but being able to sell surplus weapons for a tax free fair price was attractive - quite a few people used the money to buy newer guns.
We're not disarmed. Certainly our rights concerning gun ownership are nowhere near as protected as they would be in the US and the situation is a long way from good. But Americans have been lied to about Australia's gun laws by politicians who want to hold us up as some sort of gun free utopia in the hope of convincing Americans that getting rid of guns creates a magical paradise - and it does start to get tiresome on many conservative forums that almost any time Australia gets mentioned, somebody brings up the gun misconceptions again.