An investigation by the al-Jazeera network of three years of investigations into the activities of the arms lobby in the United States revealed an Australian party's effort to secure $ 20 million of US arms advocates.
A delegation from Australia's "One Nation" party, headed by Pauline Hanson, visited Washington in September last year to seek millions of dollars from the National Rifle Association and other arms lobby groups, and pledged to work to relax Australia's arms- Which were condemned by the League.
In a series of meetings, the party's delegation received advice from the National Rifle Association on how best to prepare Australia to change its laws governing arms possession. Australia's arms laws are a problem for the association, whose official says the success of these laws could serve as a pretext to reduce US arms ownership.
Australia imposed tight restrictions on the sale of semi-automatic rifles after the massacre in Port Arthur, Tasmania, in the 1990s, when 35 people were killed by a gunman.
After that, 650,000 weapons were confiscated or destroyed, and since 1996 there has been no single mass shooting in the country.