"1941, 1942 were dark days for Australia and firearms of all descriptions were acquired by the Australian Defence Department and this would probably have been in private hands, captured by a digger and brought back from WW1 battlefields."
Interesting that both England and Australia were begging for arms at the outbreak of war.
America supplied England, and Australia seemed to tap citizen owned firearms.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.
Both England and Australia have done their best to disarm, but now the Australians have no-one to help, and I do not see why America should help England again when it would be a repeat crisis of their own making.
Especially given the English, First Sea Lord's behavior with the Lusitania.
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