Bryant's Mass Killing
On April 28th, 1996, Ian Kingston, a security guard stood in the doorway of the Broad Arrow cafe at the historic site of Port Arthur in southern Tasmania. He stared at the body of a man lying on the floor, then looked up into the barrel of a semi-automatic rifle. He dived back out the door as Martin Bryant pulled the trigger. Bryant killed 12 people in 15 seconds. Bryant moved towards the gift shop in the next 75 seconds, killing another eight people. In little over half an hour the 35 were killed and, 23 wounded. This became the worst single-person mass shooting in Australia’s history; and is still the third worst recorded worldwide. Bryant’s gun was an AR-15 rifle with a 30-shot magazine. Bryant exchanged it for a semi-automatic .308 FN