We have the Greenies down here constantly telling the public you can just walk into gun shop and walk out with anything. Of course when invited to do so on camera their schedule is always full.No big deal really to get the firearms. Actually I believe it is a good thing to have to have a good knowledge of how to properly handle firearms before you are allowed to acquire them. The course is only a full day including classroom time and practical as well as the actual exam. The asshole PM we have right now wanted to ban ALL handguns and semiauto rifles but the backlash was incredible. The online petition alone had over ten times the signatures of ANY such petition to the government in history. His leftie followers are even finding out that they were wrong about "just anyone" being able to purchase guns online and lots have decided that now is the time to buy a gun "just in case". Staff at Cabela's here said they have NEVER seen so many guns of ALL types as well as ammo go out of the store as they had in the last couple weeks. He won't get in next election and even if he still goes ahead and enacts banning legislation without parliamentary approval (similar to a POTUS executive order) the conservatives have said they would immediately rescind it.
Seems to be a decent backyard manufacturing industry as well, some of the gear confiscated in police raids is bloody impressive, MAC 10 clones etc.