You reasons are sound, but the biggest issue is that it's not what the registry can do for shooters - it what it costs all of us on the way there. Sure, general public currently believes the...
Liked On: 03-06-2024, 12:13 PM
You make a very good point but I suspect that registration is more like the thin end of the wedge You don't need semiautos You don't need a 50 cal You don't need anything bigger than a 300Win...
Liked On: 03-06-2024, 12:12 PM
Logic says you are correct. But name me one country where registration hasn't resulted in confiscation.
Liked On: 03-06-2024, 12:11 PM
no point with police on the beat as some wimpy judge just hands out p.d and low sentences. i would hate to be a frontline cop, put my life in danger, spend ages doing paperwork. sit in court and...
Liked On: 03-06-2024, 12:09 PM
Idiots will be idiots regardless of rules. We've had C cat holders selling firearm so how is a registry going to be any different. Good people will behave bad people won't.
Liked On: 03-06-2024, 12:07 PM
Gunshops keep a record of sales and it's available to Police at any time. Tell me how that is different to a registry? And 10K and 3-4 firearms of the same type? More common than you would think...
Liked On: 03-06-2024, 12:07 PM
The other problem with dealing with crims with firearms vs responsible firearms owners is crims are quite prepared to use them against police your normal garden variety firearms owner wouldn't and...
Liked On: 03-06-2024, 12:06 PM
And to make it worse the report under the OIA recently suggested it was only single digit percentages of firearms confiscated by police during crimes that were ever recorded from anywhere which means...
Liked On: 03-06-2024, 12:06 PM
The whole straw buyers thing is what Police are pushing the most. Sure they have caught a lot of people but they have been stupid people, people going into a gunshop and dropping $10K and buying 3 or...
Liked On: 03-06-2024, 12:05 PM
The issue with this is it is a doctrinal problem - Police doctrine is response based i.e. a crime happens, Police respond, investigate and hopefully catch the crim which in theory results in a...
Liked On: 03-06-2024, 12:05 PM
And Right On Cue the Herald run a hit piece, no doubt at the behest of Police. It is behind a pay-wall so not many will read it hopefully. Firearms and ammunition purchased by straw buyers...
Liked On: 03-06-2024, 12:01 PM
I predict "nothing will change much for now" and I hope to be proved happily wrong but I'm not holding my breath for fear of passing out.
Liked On: 03-06-2024, 12:01 PM
Yea but you need to show the real numbers for that not "their" numbers.
Liked On: 03-06-2024, 12:01 PM
Agreed The way to sell the abandoning of the register to Joe and Jane citizen is a) Showing how much money it will cost b) Showing how little crime it will solve c) Show how many times overseas...
Liked On: 03-06-2024, 12:01 PM
Interesting to see in Aussie the claims of the benefits provided by their version of the registry don't seem to be stacking up to reality. A lot of shooting-related incidents over there seem to have...
Liked On: 03-06-2024, 12:00 PM