From: ghm@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au (Geoff Miller)
Subject: Re: Ban All Firearms !
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
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jrm@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu writes:

>	Firearms tend to fall into this low dollar/pound area.
>	It would not be economic to smuggle them in. All production
>	would have to be local. There are not all that many people
>	who have both the skill AND motivation to assemble worthwhile
>	firearms from scratch. High-ranking crime figures could
>	obtain imported Uzis and such, but the average person, and
>	average thug, would be lucky to get a zip-gun - and would
>	pay through the nose for it. 

So why did the Australian Customs Service make a public statement to
a parliamentary committee last year that weapons smuggling was a problem
which it was not able to control?  Possibly criminals don't have your 
grasp of economics?

Geoff Miller  (g-miller@adfa.edu.au)
Computer Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy
