The killer quirk hiding in Australia's gun laws

By Nick O'Malley, Sean Nicholls
Updated October 7 2017 - 8:44am, first published 8:43am
Australia's gun buyback resulted in about 1 million newly banned weapons being destroyed en masse. Photo: Dean Sewell
Australia's gun buyback resulted in about 1 million newly banned weapons being destroyed en masse. Photo: Dean Sewell

It has become part of the script of the larger American mass shootings. Amid the public expressions of grief and disbelief, the utterances of prayers and the tributes to the dead, Australian-style gun laws become, for a time, part of the American national debate.

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