The Deep State hates private citizens having guns because it wants to have a passive population that are completely helpless and totally controlled. Return the Founding Fathers of America to this day, and they would condemn Australia in the strongest possible terms. They would find it hard to believe that an Anglo Saxon people have sunk so low. Have a read of this: https://www.buckeyefirearms.org/gun-quotations-founding-fathers:
“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined...”
- George Washington, First Annual Address, to both House of Congress, January 8, 1790