It did not ban all guns. Start your Independent Premium subscription today.In the wake of the concert massacre in Las Vegas, the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history, commentators have pointed to Australia’s 1990s crackdown on gun ownership as an example of how to prevent similar atrocities.On Monday, 59 people were killed and more than 500 injured when a gunman opened fire from a room in the Mandalay Bay hotel, reportedly using a rapid-firing semi-automatic weapon.Asked whether new gun control rules would follow, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said: “There will be time for that policy discussion to take place but that’s not the place that we are in at the moment.”Nonetheless, the example has again been raised of how Australia responded to a mass shooting of its own in 1996, when a lone gunman killed 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania.The government of John Howard instituted a ban on, and a mass, compulsory buy-back of, certain kinds of guns, destroying nearly 660,000 rapid-fire weapons over two years amid other measures.Since then Australia has not suffered another mass shooting, defined by academics as the killing of five or more people, not including the perpetrator.In other words, the likelihood of being murdered by gunshot fell by 72 per cent in that period, from 0.54 to 0.15 per 100,000 people, Reuters said.People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gun fire was heardPeople carry a person at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after shots were firedPeople run from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gun fire was heardA handout photo released via Twitter by Eiki Hrafnsson (@EirikurH) showing concertgoers running away from the scene (C) after shots range out at the Route 91 Harvest festival on Las Vegas BoulevardPeople lie on the ground at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after hearing gun fireA man in a wheelchair is taken away from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after hearing gun firePeople stand on the street outside the Mandalay Bay hotel near the scene of the Route 91 Harvest festival on Las Vegas Boulevard FBI agents confer in front of the Tropicana hotel-casino after a mass shooting during a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Las Vegas police run by a banner on the fence at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival grounds after shots were firedAn injured person is tended to in the intersection of Tropicana Ave. and Las Vegas Boulevard after a mass shooting at a country music festivalMetro Police officers pass by the front of the Tropicana hotel-casino after a mass shooting at a music festival on the Las Vegas StripA woman sits on a curb at the scene of a shooting outside of a music festival along the Las Vegas StripA cowboy hat lays in the street after shots were fired near a country music festival in Las VegasLas Vegas Metro Police and medical workers stage in the intersection of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard South after a mass shooting at a music festival on the Las Vegas StripSheriff Joe Lombardo (2-R) speaking during a press briefing in the aftermath of the active shooter incident on Las Vegas Boulevard“Total homicide rates followed the same pattern.

You know who did what Australia did? "Gaetz’s claim about Australia is wrong, and his comparison to Venezuela is flawed.After a mass shooting in 1996, Australia banned semi-automatic and self-loading rifles as well as shotguns and offered a one-year buyback. Removing large numbers of rapid-firing firearms from civilians may be an effective way of reducing mass shootings, firearm homicides and firearm suicides.”But to mark 20 years since the country’s dramatic intervention the authors of that study conducted While it also noted an accelerated decline in firearms deaths since the ban, and a statistically significant acceleration in the downward trend of firearm suicides, it concluded they could not be causally linked to Mr Howard’s ban despite this correlation.The researchers wrote: “There was a more rapid decline in firearm deaths between 1997 and 2013 compared with before 1997, but also a decline in total non-firearm suicide and homicide deaths of a greater magnitude.“Because of this, it is not possible to determine whether the change in firearm deaths can be attributed to the gun law reforms.”Reform advocates in the US face significant opposition from conservative activists and the National Rifle Association, while any new laws would have to take into account the Second Amendment to the country’s constitution.Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock, who had an arsenal of more than three dozen weapons, is thought to have obtained them all legally.No 'mass shootings' since John Howard's government banned rapid-fire weaponsIndependent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Following the gun law changes, there were no mass shootings for many years. In a world of wild talk and fake news, help us stand up for the facts. Australia rolled out strict gun laws in 1996. Contributions or gifts to PolitiFact, which is part of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Poynter Institute, are tax deductible.

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