depends, you cannot go into the streets with a gun but you can keep one at your house, so like, if there's a robbery you can legally use the gun, that's what i understand, tbh it's messed up.
When Australia's then-PM John Howard introduced the National Firearms Agreement after the Port Athur Massacre in 1996, heavily restricting gun ownership.
Gee, sounds like Aussies are smarter and more cautious than Americans...tsk tsk tsk.
Goddamnit, America, why are you so frickin' antiquated? No real gun control laws, still using fabric money, still using nonsensical Imperial units, using illogical date formatting...can't stand that country, myself. So frickin' backwards.