Australia, doesn't have much of a gun culture.

[digrar]

Australian Army member charged over training in public with replica gun

Australian Army member charged after training session with replica gun send schools into lockdown
Updated yesterday at 6:52pm

The man who sent schools into lockdown south of Brisbane following reports he was wearing camouflage clothing and carrying what appeared to be a gun is a member of the Australian Army.

The 26-year-old, who has now been charged with public nuisance, sparked a full police response involving patrols and Polair just after 11:15am after several people raised the alarm in Rochedale South.

It sent Rochedale High School, nearby Redeemer Lutheran College and several daycare centres into lockdown.

Quite obviously a bent up piece of steel, certainly a bit more elaborate than the bit of pipe with a handle we used to use back in the olden days.

 

[SpitfireV]

Training aid, so maybe one of those blue rubber jobs? Not the blue rubber jobs you're used to Diggles but rather one shaped like a gun.

If so seems a bit much to charge him. He was dumb for not telling the cops though.

 

[digrar]

I think a blue/red gun would have got the same response. People are retarded. Including the digger, who should have had better situational awareness.

 

[RackMaster]

And to think our current government admires and wants to copy your gun laws.

 

[pardus]

Australia’s Gun 'Buyback' Created a Violent Firearms Black Market. Why Should the U.S. Do the Same?

Interesting article. I was surprised by the 19-20% estimated compliance rate for handing in semi-autos. Then again, I recall in New Zealand when they pulled a similar type of restriction of semi-autos, the media (IIRC) stating that up to 500,000 semi-auto rifles where never registered and simply disappeared...