and have no chance to experience them legally and responsibly, you fear them because all the TV people said they're bad and make you do evil things if you touch them and magically go off by themselves if you're near them...LOL.

This is a pretty ironic since they banned guns in Australia. I'd wonder if there are any gun ranges left...no customers, no point in having them, eh? :-)

... with the currently available shooting ranges? Using real guns, with real bangs and real recoil?

I'm sure they could get some time on the army training village if they asked nicely.