Too Many Guns 🔫 Never Enough
Almost forty years ago, former NSW premiere Barrie ‘Prescient’ Unsworth warned that it would ‘take a massacre in Tasmania before there was gun control in Australia.’ Fast forwarding to today, we are still grappling with the evil of gun nuts and their fucking firearms and haphazard regulation — especially for dangerous high-powered weapons.
The problem is the states having different firearm control measures in place rather than a national approach. For example the Wedgetail MPR308 a fast firing pump-action assault-style rifle is banned in the ACT, NSW and Tasmania but is available for recreational and sporting shooters in the NT, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.
If John Wick were here today — he'd love to get his hands on a Wedgetail — plus, it's Aussie 🇦🇺 made! 🦘 Oi! Oi! Oi!
Such guns are incredibly dangerous and normal citizens have zero business having access to them because anyone can become another Martin Bryant in an instant — killing and maiming quickly and efficiently. The trick is that these guns are pump-action rifles and therefore exempt from widespread bans on pump-action shotguns enacted in the National Firearms Agreement following the Port Arthur massacre. And, as they're domestically manufactured, they're exempt from control via federal customs regulations.
Given the increase in gun ownership where those owning guns now have even more guns, the Australian Federal Police Association is calling for gun owners to only be able to buy ammunition specifically for their registered firearms e.g., those with a .22 calibre rifle should not be able to buy shotgun shells.
PM Anthony Albanese has convinced premiers and chief ministers of the National Cabinet to establish a national firearms register but it won't come into effect until 2028, and, after the Wieambilla shootings, that is clearly too fucking far in the fucking future.
Gareth in particular was obsessed with guns and weapons, Nathaniel to a lesser degree … Father of Wieambilla murderer terrorists Gareth and Nathaniel Train.
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