Port Arthur massacre which happened on 28–29 April 1996. A killing spree in which 35 people were killed and 23 seriously wounded. It occurred mainly at the historic Port Arthur former prison colony, a popular tourist site in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia.
Martin John Bryant, a 28-year-old from Newtown, a suburb of Hobart, was found guilty of the shootings and given 35 life sentence without possibility of parole. Following the incident, it emerged in the media that Bryant had significant Intellectual disability. He is now imprisoned in the Wilfred Lopes Centre near the Risdon Prison Complex.
After the 1996 firearm massacre in Tasmania in which 35 people died, Australian governments united to remove semi‐automatic and pump‐action shotguns and rifles from civilian possession, as a key component of gun law reforms.
Australia's 1996 gun law reforms were followed by more
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Total homicide rates followed the same pattern. Removing large numbers of rapid‐firing firearms from civilians may be an effective way of reducing mass shootings, firearm homicides and firearm suicides.
Australia's 1996 gun law reforms were followed by more than a decade free of fatal mass shootings, and accelerated declines in firearm deaths, particularly suicides. Total homicide rates followed the same pattern. Removing large numbers of rapid‐firing firearms from civilians may be an effective way of reducing mass shootings, firearm homicides and firearm suicides.
Australia's 1996 gun law reforms were followed by more than a decade free of fatal mass shootings, and accelerated declines in firearm deaths, particularly suicides. Total homicide rates followed the same pattern. Removing large numbers of rapid‐firing firearms from civilians may be an effective way of reducing mass shootings, firearm homicides and firearm