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You've probably heard the claim: “The biggest source of illegal guns in Australia is theft.” But that's not what the statistics actually present

The statistic they're referring to is specifically about handguns recovered by police and sent for tracing. Nearly two-thirds of those handguns couldn't be traced at all. Of the ones where they could identify how they entered the illegal market, about 31% were stolen.

So technically, theft was the biggest known source of illegal handguns, but only the ones they could trace��(key words = COULD be traced)

And here's another important part they conveniently leave out.

Australia is estimated to have around 200,000 illegal firearms. About 190,000 are longarms.

Only about 10,000 are handguns.

That means handguns make up just 5% of Australia's estimated illegal firearms, and that shouldn't be surprising.

Handguns are far more restricted for legal owners to get than ordinary rifles and shotguns, so they're also a much smaller part of the legal firearms market.

Now let’s look at longarms which make up around 95% of the estimated illegal firearm pool. Of the ones which could be traced, only about 9% came from theft.

So they've taken a statistic about one small category — handguns — and presented it as though it applies to illegal guns as a whole.

They've taken the biggest slice of the smallest pie... and made it sound like it represents the whole bakery.

So next time someone tells you licensed gun owners are the main source of Australia's illegal guns...send them this video.

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Voice Of The Hunter

Last year, there were just 23 firearm homicide incidents in the entire country,
that’s number drops to 8 if you remove the 15 Bondi victims…

And yet, if you watch the news, you'd think guns are one of the most dangerous things you could possibly have in your house.

So here are five things you probably have at home that kill more Aussies every year than guns.

Ladders. More than 30 Australians die every year falling off ladders. So should our politicians worry about taking dangerous ladders off of our streets?

Swimming pools. Around 35 to 40 Australians drown in backyard swimming pools every year.

Again — more than guns. But strangely, nobody's calling for a swimming pool buyback.

Knives. Around 95 Australians were murdered with knives or other sharp objects last year.

That's more than three times the number of firearm homicide incidents, and with knife crime soaring, that numbers only going to get worse

Cars. Almost 1,300 Australians die on our roads every year. That's more than 50 times the number of firearm homicide incidents. But nobody seriously suggests banning cars... Because we understand that millions of people use them safely every single day.

And finally... Drug overdoses. More than 1,400 accidental drug-induced deaths occur every year. Now this includes both prescription and illicit drugs, …which doesn’t make sense because regulating and banning things is meant to prevent people from dying right…

Now obviously I'm not actually saying we should ban ladders, swimming pools, knives or cars. We accept that nothing in life is completely risk-free, and don't ban every useful thing just because a small number of people are killed using it each year.

Just because something can be dangerous in the wrong hands, doesn't mean millions of responsible Australians shouldn't be allowed to legally own and use it.