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== Open carry in Oceania ==

== Open carry in Oceania ==

Some citizens of the Pacific Islands fairly regularly carry guns, usually for self-protection and for hunting wild game, including fruit bats. These nations include East Timor<ref>http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/programguide/stories/200811/s2427810.htm</ref> (where a ban is in effect, but widely flouted, and a law allowing legal ownership has been proposed),<ref>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23957956-2703,00.html</ref> Papua New Guinea,<ref>http://www.islandsbusiness.com/islands_business/index_dynamic/containerNameToReplace=MiddleMiddle/focusModuleID=18815/overideSkinName=issueArticle-full.tpl</ref> the Philippines,<ref>http://www.hrsolidarity.net/mainfile.php/2008vol18no04/2667/</ref><ref>http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleid=481403</ref> and the Solomon Islands.<ref>http://www.islandsbusiness.com/news/index_dynamic/containerNameToReplace=MiddleMiddle/focusModuleID=130/focusContentID=15815/tableName=mediaRelease/overideSkinName=newsArticle-full.tpl</ref><ref>http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-78567604.html</ref> In East Timor, where somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 civilians (about one-third of the population) were killed on a genocidal scale, there is a division of opinion. Some idealists want to try to disarm the country, while others see privately-owned firearms as insurance that another invasion and genocide won't be again attempted.<ref>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=742684</ref> ''The Australian'' reported "Almost all the ammunition and more than half the firearms of East Timor's national police force are missing. Unaccounted for, according to a security analyst, are more than half the 3,000 Glock 9mm pistols issued to the 3,400-member police force (PNTL), whose authority has ceased to exist in Dili. More than half the PNTL's 400 Steyr assault rifles and Heckler & Koch HK-33 assault rifles, 160 of 200 FNC assault rifles and all F-2000 assault rifles issued to police bodyguard units are also missing." Many of these guns ended up in the hands of gangs, but many others are being held by otherwise law-abiding citizens as "[anti-]genocide insurance."<ref>http://www.etan.org/et2006/june/10/06guns.htm</ref> In the Philippines, some news reporters carry guns.<ref>http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3969</ref>

Some citizens of the Pacific Islands fairly regularly carry guns, usually for self-protection and for hunting wild game, including fruit bats. These nations include East Timor<ref>http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/programguide/stories/200811/s2427810.htm</ref> (where a ban is in effect, but widely flouted, and a law allowing legal ownership has been proposed),<ref>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23957956-2703,00.html</ref> Papua New Guinea,<ref>http://www.islandsbusiness.com/islands_business/index_dynamic/containerNameToReplace=MiddleMiddle/focusModuleID=18815/overideSkinName=issueArticle-full.tpl</ref> the Philippines,<ref>http://www.hrsolidarity.net/mainfile.php/2008vol18no04/2667/</ref><ref>http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleid=481403</ref> and the Solomon Islands.<ref>http://www.islandsbusiness.com/news/index_dynamic/containerNameToReplace=MiddleMiddle/focusModuleID=130/focusContentID=15815/tableName=mediaRelease/overideSkinName=newsArticle-full.tpl</ref><ref>http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-78567604.html</ref> In East Timor, where somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 civilians (about one-third of the population) were killed on a genocidal scale, there is a division of opinion. Some idealists want to try to disarm the country, while others see privately owned firearms as insurance that another invasion and genocide won't be again attempted.<ref>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=742684</ref> ''The Australian'' reported "Almost all the ammunition and more than half the firearms of East Timor's national police force are missing. Unaccounted for, according to a security analyst, are more than half the 3,000 Glock 9mm pistols issued to the 3,400-member police force (PNTL), whose authority has ceased to exist in Dili. More than half the PNTL's 400 Steyr assault rifles and Heckler & Koch HK-33 assault rifles, 160 of 200 FNC assault rifles and all F-2000 assault rifles issued to police bodyguard units are also missing." Many of these guns ended up in the hands of gangs, but many others are being held by otherwise law-abiding citizens as "[anti-]genocide insurance."<ref>http://www.etan.org/et2006/june/10/06guns.htm</ref> In the Philippines, some news reporters carry guns.<ref>http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3969</ref>

== See also ==

== See also ==