Adelaide visual artist Peter Drew set to tackle America's 'broken' gun law system

Adelaide's Peter Drew has never been afraid to divide opinion.

The artist behind the infamous 'Real Australians Say Welcome' and Monga Khan posters is now set to tackle one of the America's biggest political talking points, gun control.

Drew — who began his refugee poster campaign in 2015 — has generated awareness around the way Australians treats asylum seekers as well as the traditional owners of Australian land.

But his latest campaign looks beyond the borders of Australia, with the artist planning to travel to the United States to generate discussion around American gun laws.

So what is the message?

A hot topic internationally, Drew said America had a "broken system".

His next set of posters display a broken rifle and the words 'Australia, it works'.

Drew said he would travel to Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York in August where he hoped to speak to American people about the issue and how things are done in his home country.

"Personally, what I hope from this campaign is to speak to American individuals about what they think of the issue," he said.

"The gun laws poster is just one of eight posters I'm working on at the moment."

He decided to release the gun laws poster on his social media platforms ahead of his trip to get a feel for what people thought closer to home.

He said he would more than likely tweak the idea again before heading overseas, but the message was clear — Australian gun laws work.

"Releasing the poster more or less coincided with getting my studio up and running again because I was out of action for about six months," he said.

"But getting it out there helps to get feedback and really helps me to refine my work and my ideas.

"I want to try and create a discussion with my posters. I think there's an insight that's missing in the debate [around gun laws].

"There's a lot of emotion in the debate and I want to appeal to American pragmatism.

Hoping to make an impact abroad

While he doesn't expect to make huge waves on his visit to America, Mr Drew said he hoped people would see his posters and be inspired enough to take action and "make it their own".

"I hope people who see my posters can take ownership of what I'm doing and make it into something bigger," he said.

"So hopefully people will respond to it and make it their own because I believe Australia is a great example of how gun laws work."

With debate surrounding the issue worldwide, he said he expected both support and hostility during his trip.

But he believed it would be important to listen to both sides of the argument.

"There are blind spots on both sides of people's opinions," he said.

"I think there's a culture of outrage in the industry and both sides of politics are guilty of that, which is unhelpful.

"It's important to speak to people who disagree with you.