Here are some articles I have digged up on the gun grabbers and their failure and obvious paranoia.
"Highly lethal Semi-Auto machine gun"? Can someone say fearmongering?
This next one is my personal favourite...
Ok, the guy (Bob Brown - Greens senator (Left wing party)) is obviously a nutcase who makes no sense at all.
1. Its illegal to have a handgun in the glove box (It has to be in the boot of the car, with the ammunition in a seperate vehicle).
2. Handguns do serve a LEGITIMATE purpose in sporting shooting in Australia
3. Handguns are SEVERLY regulated to the point where its much easier to goto your local organized gang or drug dealer and get yourself a firearm.
4. "Hand Machine Guns"? You gotta be kidding me!
Oh and if you're wondering what gun was used in the shooting, it was a Llama Minmax in .40 (or .45). And to clarify things, We can only have handguns that have a barrel length or at least 120mm (revolvers 100mm), maximum 10 round capacity and a calibre limit of .38.
And if you were wondering, the shooting was a random shooting and the dead victim had NO AFFILIATION with the perpetrator. He was just in the wrong place in the wrong time.
This article is obvious scarmongering in reducing firearm ownership...
Actually, no, its the safety teaching of firearms and proper parenting/responsible that reduces the amount of firearm homicides. Oh, and the reduction of gangs since its not un-common to see 13-17 yr old gangbangers in gangs.
Oh and I wonder how many kids have died from swimming pool drownings?
A MAN found lurking in a laneway behind a hip Sydney nightclub, carrying a home-made high-powered machine gun, has been sentenced to a minimum of four years’ jail.
Edward Nassr, 31, of Kellyville, told police he had been urinating in the laneway behind DCM on Oxford St when officers saw him emerge carrying a large bag strapped over one shoulder in the early hours of June 9 last year.
A radio check of his name revealed he had previously been caught with a gun in a public place, and when police asked if he had anything in the bag, he replied: “Yeah, a gun.“
The “gun” turned out to be a highly lethal semi-automatic machine gun capable of firing bullets in rapid succession with one press of the trigger.
lso in the bag was a Glock brand magazine with 31 rounds of ammunition adapted to fit the machine gun, and a pair of black and red nylon gloves.
Nassr said he had been handed the bag in the laneway by “an unknown man” just 20 seconds before he was stopped by police and he planned to dispose of it.
He later pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered firearm in a public place and possession of a prohibited weapon.
Sentencing Nassr in the District Court, Judge Penelope Hock said the weapon was highly dangerous and “a menace to the public.“
“I find the offender’s account to police officers on that night to be incredible,‘’ she said.
Nassr, who was on bail at the time for a similar offence after police caught him with a loaded pistol in a car in July 2007, also has prior convictions for armed robbery, assault and break and enter, the court heard.
Judge Hock sentenced him to a minimum of four years’ jail with a balance of two years and nine months to be served on parole.
With time already served, he will be eligible for release in January 2013.
"Highly lethal Semi-Auto machine gun"? Can someone say fearmongering?
A LONG-SERVING police sergeant was equipped with a Taser when she used a gun to shoot a man in suburban Sydney.
The man, who also had self-inflicted knife wounds died at Canterbury Hospital this morning, the Daily Telegraph reports.
It is believed one reason the officer fired was that the confrontation occurred in the kitchen of the Lakemba house, meaning the man may have been too close for the Taser to be effective.
Police have revealed they were called to the Wangee Rd home about 8.50am (AEDT) after reports of a man trying to kill himself with a knife.
They arrived with paramedics and started to treat the 36-year-old man on the floor of the kitchen.
South-west Metrpolitan Region Commander, Assistant Commissioner Stuart Wilkins, said the man then got to his feet, grabbed a knife and confronted those attempting to help.
A female Sergeant with 21-years experience then drew her service-issue Glock revolver and shot the man once.
“He’s committed self-harm again and have police have wrestled the knife from him,“ Ass Commissioner Wilkins said.
Paramedics again started treating him and raced him to hospital but died.
The shot man, known to neighbours as Adam, had walked next door about 7.30am (AEDT) to ask to borrow a mop, and was not suffering injuries at that time, a neighbour told reporters.
About 90 minutes later emergency service crews were called to the house.
“Upon arrival with the ambulance, police located a male suffering stab wounds in the kitchen of the house,‘’ Mr Wilkins said.
“Paramedics had attempted to assist that person. During this time the male, who has got up from a lying position, we believe he has grabbed a knife from the kitchen and confronted police.
“During that confrontation that male has been shot, once, by police ... a further struggle has ensued, the male has committed self-harm again, police have wrestled the knife from that male person.‘’
The man was then taken to hospital by ambulance.
Four police officers, three women and one man, were at the house at the time of the shooting.
The man’s father was also at the house at the time.
Police say he was not injured, but a next-door neighbour, who did not want to be identified, said the older man had been brought into her backyard for treatment and had been covered in blood.
The father and son are believed to have lived together and were the only occupants of the house.
The man was not known criminally to police.
Mr Wilkins would not confirm that the officers were threatened, but said the decision to use a firearm was “not taken lightly’‘ by officers.
“I’m not here to speculate on the use of Tasers or whether or not that was the appropriate use at that time,‘’ he said.
“Tasers are just one option available to us, we have a number of options available.‘’
To read more go to The Daily Telegraph
This next one is my personal favourite...
Tougher handgun restrictions should be adopted in Australia to reduce the hundreds of thousands in circulation, say the Australian Greens, after the second school shooting massacre in Finland in less than a year.
A student, Matti Juhani Saari, used a handgun to shoot and kill 10 people before taking his own life at a trade school in western Finland.
According to media reports he had a valid licence for the weapon.
Greens leader Bob Brown said today there were 300,000 hand guns in Australia and it was time for a dramatic reduction.
"The people who require a (hand) machine gun be carried around available to them, in the glove box or whatever, is very, very limited in a peaceful society like our own," he said.
"There is no reason for so many hundreds of thousands of handguns, including effectively hand machine guns, to be available in Australia."
Senator Brown said long guns had been dealt with in 1996, following the Port Arthur massacre, but the question of handguns had not been tackled.
"They were never collected and destroyed, and taken out of the hands of people who didn't need them, and that's the majority of people who own them," he added.
The Sporting Shooters Association of Australia said there was no need for tougher gun laws.
Association spokesman Tim Bannister slammed Senator Brown for his comments within hours of the Finnish tragedy.
"We find it quite distasteful to talk about the acts of criminals and the mentally unhinged straight after the event," he said.
Mr Bannister accused Senator Brown of being extremist, populist and exploitative.
"Handgun ownership has always been incredibly strictly legislated," he said, and more laws would not stop the criminals.
Mr Bannister said the problem was criminals - he mentioned bikies and the mafia - who had handguns but no licence for them. The police should crack down on such activity.
"Criminals don't listen to laws, that's why they're criminals. They're outlaws," he said.
Mr Bannister said only people with a genuine reason, such as target shooters and vets, could get a handgun licence. He could not comment on how many handguns there were in Australia.
Calls for tighter handgun restrictions were sparked vy last year's Melbourne CBD shooting in which former bikie Christopher Wayne Hudson used an illegal handgun to shoot dead one man and severely injure two others.
Ok, the guy (Bob Brown - Greens senator (Left wing party)) is obviously a nutcase who makes no sense at all.
1. Its illegal to have a handgun in the glove box (It has to be in the boot of the car, with the ammunition in a seperate vehicle).
2. Handguns do serve a LEGITIMATE purpose in sporting shooting in Australia
3. Handguns are SEVERLY regulated to the point where its much easier to goto your local organized gang or drug dealer and get yourself a firearm.
4. "Hand Machine Guns"? You gotta be kidding me!
Oh and if you're wondering what gun was used in the shooting, it was a Llama Minmax in .40 (or .45). And to clarify things, We can only have handguns that have a barrel length or at least 120mm (revolvers 100mm), maximum 10 round capacity and a calibre limit of .38.
And if you were wondering, the shooting was a random shooting and the dead victim had NO AFFILIATION with the perpetrator. He was just in the wrong place in the wrong time.
This article is obvious scarmongering in reducing firearm ownership...
MORE than half of all South Australian child gunshot deaths in the past four decades were homicides, a University of Adelaide study has revealed.
The study shows that over the past 37 years, at least 42 children under the age of 17 have died from gunshot wounds.
The study shows that 52.4 per cent of the deaths were homicides, 33.3 per cent were suicides and 14.3 per cent were accidents.
Many of the homicides were murder-suicides.
Forensic pathologist Professor Roger Byard said the figures were disturbing, but well below that of comparative regions in the United States, where private ownership of firearms is far more common.
Child shooting statistics in San Diego, California, were used as a comparison in the study.
"In San Diego, there were 185 paediatric deaths over an 18-year period as a result of firearms," he said.
"The incidence of homicide was significantly higher in San Diego County compared to Adelaide, but per capita there were more murder-suicides in South Australia."
Professor Byard said the study showed that death rates from gunshots were five to six times higher in the United States than other countries of a similar socioeconomic level.
"Availability and access to firearms in the United States must be considered a potential factor," he said.
"The comparative rarity of gunshot deaths in Australian children relates to differences in cultural and legislative practices, with reduced access to weapons in this country."
Actually, no, its the safety teaching of firearms and proper parenting/responsible that reduces the amount of firearm homicides. Oh, and the reduction of gangs since its not un-common to see 13-17 yr old gangbangers in gangs.
Oh and I wonder how many kids have died from swimming pool drownings?