Thread: New Updated Arms Code 2017

Pretty sure they get legal advice on every issue going to court.. I know that they had advice before they followed through on the pistol grips case.... believe me they prefer not to follow through if they know that they are going to get spanked. They were clearly hoping the result was going to be the other way around.
Lawyers argue cases every day for their clients who are hoping to change the legal interpretations of some statute and I guess that is all that is happening here.

The attitude of the police has definitely changed towards firearms ownership, my argument is that its just not a conspiracy... it simply is what it is. I think that that is their policy to minimise private ownership over the long term and making it harder for us will be the means by which that will be achieved. This will come in the forms of support for further legislative restriction and in the form of policy that pushes legal boundaries. They are no longer our friends in my view.

From what I can see the motivations are coming from different directions, health and safety of staff is likely to be one, budgetary costs another, and personally I think that the ideology within the department has changed. There is also their own failings in terms of burglary prevention and clearance rate they would like to distract attention away from. They have certainly lost any idea of their responsibility to protect our rights under the law...

So the net result is that the attitude towards firearms will likely continue to become more negative. But I would say it is an agenda, and likely to be a policy... every little policy writer and bureaucrat spends their time fixing perceived problems and we have developed a culture of blame rather than responsibility...

Oh joy.......... I'm depressing myself