Gun reform after a major mass shooting in Australia has largely been heralded as a success. However, understanding how compliance is encouraged among the gun owning community with a history of opposing regulation is currently limited in systematic sociological research. Gun dealers in particular appear to be important for understanding levels of compliance and possibilities for promoting compliance, as they are simultaneously involved in the compliance process and subject to its enforcement as members of the gun owning community. This paper positions gun dealers as street-level bureaucrats responsible for implementing gun regulations and uses a Compliance Motivation framework to explore the possible motivations for compliance and their role in promoting compliance within the gun owning community. Findings are based on 28 in-depth interviews with gun dealers across Australia and demonstrate the challenging but important role that gun dealer’s play in enacting gun control policy.

澳大利亚发生大规模枪击事件后的枪支改革在很大程度上被认为是成功的。然而，目前在系统的社会学研究中，了解如何在具有反对监管历史的枪支拥有社区中鼓励合规性是有限的。枪支经销商对于了解合规水平和促进合规的可能性似乎特别重要，因为他们同时参与合规过程并作为枪支拥有社区的成员接受其执行。本文将枪支经销商定位为负责实施枪支法规的街头官僚，并使用合规动机框架来探索合规的可能动机及其在枪支拥有社区内促进合规的作用。