You can now donate to Brassroots using PayPal. From Keith Tidswell of Australia's Sporting Shooters Association. Figures over the previous 25 years show a steady decrease in firearm homicides and armed robbery. Yeah-right, dream on. Last year, the state of New South Wales made it illegal to sell knives or knife blades to anyone under 16.
Plastic knives are still acceptable.
With those two models in place, other states and territories have adopted, or at least considered, similar anti-knife rules of their own. There's been no word yet on whether the land of Mad Max and Crocodile Dundee intends to ban darts, pencils, and sticks.