Limiting civilian ownership of guns is motivated almost exclusively by very powerful people who long ago obtained immense wealth and have only grown it since.  Money being no object, the operation is well funded through their media holdings, control of education, etc and don't lack for resources.  One of the most visible organs of these people is the United Nations, and this entity is front and center in a lot of the active push to dis-arm all civilians in all nations although in order to see it clearly it takes enough effort to lift a very thin curtain.

99% of the gun-grabbers are nothing more than well-meaning (and innumerate) dups who've been adequatly conditioned...and in some cases over-conditioned.  Not bad people; just brainwashed.

The links from ~local_flow are classic propaganda from the aforementioned.  I've seen it time and time again.  Almost every other post on this thread sounds the same and comes right out of prescribed curriculum.

I quoted ~swami74' because this is one flavor of propaganda I hear from some who claim to be Aussies.  Others tell a very different story.  A fair number of them warn Americans to not let what happened to them happen to us.  I take their warnings to heart.

With the resources at the disposal of the gun-grabbers at the top of the pyramid, they know for sure that they will end up in control of the paramilitaries.  Consequently the opposite 'messaging' is promoted for this group (often labeled 'police and military' although private security firms also will be included.)  Police and other government operators are to have a monopoly on the use of force so they not only have as many guns as they want, but also increasingly military technology to employ against civilians.  Most alarming to me, things are being set up such that the police forces in particular 'self-fund' through 'civil asset forfeiture' which is simply flat out robbery through armed force.  There are a variety of examples of this happening fairly blatantly already which can be seen on youtube and the like.

As a 'sanity check', I often ask myself:

  "OK, a decade or two on we see a pretty awful scenario as some anticipate (in this case, 'authorities' abusing their
  monopoly on use of force.)  In looking back, were there warning signs?  Could we have seen this coming?"

My answer here is "Oh hell yeah!"  In fact it would be hard to miss, especially when observing how authorities tend to operate in most other countries around the world where monopolization of force in the hands of 'leadership' is more well developed.