I didn't write the above that I posted....the US side could be all BS trollop for all I know.
Its also a bit of a furphy about Oz and guns, yes we don't have guns like the USA.....but we certainly have guns.
In my small town (very small) there would be thousands of legal rifles, shotguns, pistols and you can apply for a silencer or semi auto rifle if you have a reason....there'd probably be even more illegal guns!
Nearly every country town has a gun shop or two, cities have heaps. Here's just one online used gun sales (there's heaps) https://usedguns.com.au/whats-new/
Gun ownership in Australia is huge (and there is massive growth), I'm sitting here trying to think of someone I know who doesn't own a legal gun.
Illegal guns? Jeez they would be everywhere. When the Chinese SKS was for sale there was around 500,000 sold and after Port Arthur massacre and they were banned only around 40, 000 thousand were handed in....so there's around 450,000 of just them floating around ....our population of the whole of Australia is just 25 million and we're the same land mass as the US....New York city alone has around 10 million people.
But to reiterate we don't have the US ability to pack pistols for self defence......but we also don't have the need to.