Pharmer
Remember, Australians, like the rest of the "empire", are SUBJECTS
Funny how this nonsense, or a variant of it, appears in just about every thread where Australia is mentioned.
Australia is not part of the British Empire, and hasn't been since the adoption of the
Statute of Westminster 1931. In fact FWIW there is no Empire any more. In further news, Australians are, as a matter of law, citizens, not subjects.
You'd have done better to point out that, unlike almost all other contries, we have no explicit rights set out in our constitution: our Founding Fathers, unlike yours, had far to much faith in the Government they were creating. That is the reason we are where we are
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Eliphalet
I had a quick look at the processes for getting licences and tags for, say, deer or turkey in Nevada - we have none of that. All that stuff about applying and going in a ballot to maybe get
a tag to shoot
a turkey in the few days granted for a season
Having said that though we have the land area but less than 10% of the population, and a huge supply of successful ferals, so there aren't the same pressures.
Feedthehogs
In relation to the self-defence thing I don't disagree with you. The thing is that until a scant few years ago we had much the same laws, and people here could and did carry. The laws changed pretty much overnight.
Of course, if you do have firearms you can use them in direct response to a deadly threat, but the ordinary citizen can't (legally) carry for self defence nor use "self-defence" as the reason justifying their acquisition - this was an explicit provision of the laws introduced post the Port Arthur massacre
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Confusedus
No, a powerhead is a device for killing sharks. It usually is designed to slip onto a handspear, and carries a cartridge (usually .303) which is fired on the powerhead striking the shark.