Thread: Man who shot teen dead in hunting accident 22 years ago loses firearms licence bid

Originally Posted by Frogfeatures

@Cordite fair point.
I guess 2 wrongs don’t make a right.
Speaking personally if I’d shot another person through negligence, I doubt I’d ever want to handle a firearm again.
Just my take on the situation

If anyone has been driving a car and hit /killed someone in a crash ( I hesitate to use the word accident) would you expect them to give up their license for life and never drive again? If a racing accident ends in someone dying, it would be very hard to face driving again, but could that driver get back in a car and drive either competitively or asa normal person?

I can only hope there s more to his background that has not been published. Maybe there is something there that would preclude him from reinstatement. But if not, the after 22 years I think he would have been considered. Your situation can change over time and someone who was once suitable, fit and proper for a F/A license may no longer be fit and proper. Surely this goes the other way too. Someone who may not have been fit and proper 20 years ago may well be now a fit and proper person. (Think as an example a teenage boy racer with many speeding tickets and infringements modified cars and fluting the law as a teen would not be fit and proper as his judgement is clearly not capable of acting responsible enough for firearms, but n his 30s as an adult, with a couple kids, wife and career / profession and a clear change in direction of his life may now be the very definition of fit and proper) So to hold his status because of something that long ago seems off. But lets be honest, its not like the media to report the whole story and truth, just enough to push their own agenda....