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Competentone: there is an awful lot more than "a few thousand" guns in Australia. Something like 700,000 were destroyed in the govt's 'buyback' scheme, and this was believed to be 1/7th of the guns at that time (19.4% of households there own guns, versus 39% in the US). Hence there must still be several million guns, not "a few thousand".

edit: I guess this number also doesn't take into account that not every household owning a gun has one and only one (i.e. this is clearly not the case in the US)