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[[image:Australia crime.gif|thumb|300px|right<br /><small>(The vertical line represents the timing of the gun control http://www.gunsandcrime.org/auresult.html)</small>]]

[[image:Australia crime.gif|thumb|300px|right<br /><small>(The vertical line represents the timing of the gun control http://www.gunsandcrime.org/auresult.html)</small>]]

In [[Australia]], where gun ownership was less widespread and the gun control measures were less strict, there was still an unmistakable increase in robbery and armed robbery after the gun control went into effect in 1996. Other data are less clear, but there is no evidence indicated the promised decrease in crime from gun control.<ref>[http://www.gunsandcrime.org/auresult.html Results of the Australian Gun "Buyback" & New Gun Laws], October 2001</ref>  But the gun control did have the predictable long-term political effect: voters became more reliant on the government and by 2007 candidates favoring bigger government won in a landslide.<ref>http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2007/</ref>

In [[Australia]], where gun ownership was less widespread and the gun control measures were less strict, there was still an unmistakable increase in robbery and armed robbery after the gun control went into effect in 1996 (see the figure to the right). Other data are less clear, but there is no evidence supporting the promised decrease in crime from gun control.<ref>[http://www.gunsandcrime.org/auresult.html Results of the Australian Gun "Buyback" & New Gun Laws], October 2001</ref>  But the gun control did have the predictable long-term political effect: voters became more reliant on the government and by 2007 candidates favoring bigger government won in a landslide.<ref>http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2007/</ref>

[[Liberals]] obtained the same political effect in enacting gun control in [[Britain]] and [[Canada]].  In [[Britain]], for example, the enactment of strict gun control enabled the [[Labour Party]] to win a landslide 179 seat majority in the 1997 general election, the first time it exceeded 40% of the popular vote in over 25 years.

[[Liberals]] obtained the same political effect in enacting gun control in [[Britain]] and [[Canada]].  In [[Britain]], for example, the enactment of strict gun control enabled the [[Labour Party]] to win a landslide 179 seat majority in the 1997 general election, the first time it exceeded 40% of the popular vote in over 25 years.