ttbn,

I'll just add ADI ammunition as well as smokeeless gun powders for rifle, gun and pistol, which enjoy a worldwide reputation for excellence.
http://www.adi-powders.com.au/
and Cast Bullet Engineering whose bullet moulds are also world renowned for their excellence.
http://us.castbulletengineering.com.au/
and last but not least, Simplex reloading presses which are also exported.
http://simplexreloading.com.au/presses/

Is Mise,

Thanks. Fairly insignificant then. That and our draconian gun laws resulting form a knee-jerk reaction to a single incident, and our lack of a gun culture in Australia indicates that the gun objectors are just a bunch of ideologues who enjoy making people not like them as miserable as they possibly can. It's been said often, and it might still apply, that the first thing to go with the fall of democracy is the right to bear arms. That we have never had the constitutional right as America has, has made us easy meat for the inner city greens and the likes of a very naive John Howard who was cowered by a loud minority.

ttbn,

John Howard was cowed by a minority of one, Janette.

and applauded by a majority of millions!

Foxy said "Unlike the issue of guns, whose sole purpose is to kill."

Here we have the kiln gun whose purpose is to save money and make life easier for many workers.
http://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/2011/03/utility-firearms-industrial-shotguns.html

Then there is the line throwing gun which is used to save lives.
http://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/2011/03/utility-firearms-line-throwing-gun.html

The Flare pistol, also a lifesaver.
http://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/2011/03/utility-firearms-flare-gun-or-very.html

Also, there is the common log splitting gun and it was designed to make life easier for the worker and to make more profit (higher production).
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23145020

Hope you anti-gun freaks absorb some of this knowledge, it might save you tasting the foot; an uncomfortable position, foot in mouth.

Is Mise,

You poor deluded old man.

We're talking about lethal weapons here - lethal
firearms.

You're way off base. But then you can't argue with
crazy, or talk to them.