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WE are all gun lovers here, or we wouldn't be here?
We exercise our right every day to own, and carry arms, in this great country of ours. I thought I would bring up this topic as a information type of post, and to remind me as a new American, just how lucky we are to live here.
All I have been reading recently, is the possibility that upon a possible change of government in this great country that we might be facing more stringent gun laws. I can tell you from first hand experience, we don't want that.
Back in 1996, as a knee jerk reaction to a lone shooter in the tourist township of Port Arthur, the government of the day decided in it's combined wisdom to control guns and this lead to the: "mandatory gun licenses and registration of all firearms, and a near-complete ban on all semi-automatic rifles and shotguns, and all pump-action shotguns". It was so bad that an Olympic Skeet Shooter was not allowed to own or possess a semi or pump action shot gun to use to compete for his/her country in the Olympic Games.
Ho the things I have seen! I was a State Trooper in Australia for 22 years, and the carnage I witness in the "Mandatory Gun Buy Back Scheme" was to say the least sickening.
One report outlined that the "Australian Fedral Government introduced a 1% levy on income tax for a period of one year to finance the billion dollar "buy back" purchase and [glow=red,2,300]destruction [/glow] of all previously legally-held semi-automatic rifles including .22 rimfires, semi-automatic shotguns and pump-action shotguns. Although only one state published statistics, it appears that 5% of the destroyed guns were of the military style, the remainder being sporting and farmers' working firearms".
Let us all prey that this doen't happen here, as if it does.......................... Well it's not worth thinking about, or is it!
Be Safe!
We exercise our right every day to own, and carry arms, in this great country of ours. I thought I would bring up this topic as a information type of post, and to remind me as a new American, just how lucky we are to live here.
All I have been reading recently, is the possibility that upon a possible change of government in this great country that we might be facing more stringent gun laws. I can tell you from first hand experience, we don't want that.
Back in 1996, as a knee jerk reaction to a lone shooter in the tourist township of Port Arthur, the government of the day decided in it's combined wisdom to control guns and this lead to the: "mandatory gun licenses and registration of all firearms, and a near-complete ban on all semi-automatic rifles and shotguns, and all pump-action shotguns". It was so bad that an Olympic Skeet Shooter was not allowed to own or possess a semi or pump action shot gun to use to compete for his/her country in the Olympic Games.
Ho the things I have seen! I was a State Trooper in Australia for 22 years, and the carnage I witness in the "Mandatory Gun Buy Back Scheme" was to say the least sickening.
One report outlined that the "Australian Fedral Government introduced a 1% levy on income tax for a period of one year to finance the billion dollar "buy back" purchase and [glow=red,2,300]destruction [/glow] of all previously legally-held semi-automatic rifles including .22 rimfires, semi-automatic shotguns and pump-action shotguns. Although only one state published statistics, it appears that 5% of the destroyed guns were of the military style, the remainder being sporting and farmers' working firearms".
Let us all prey that this doen't happen here, as if it does.......................... Well it's not worth thinking about, or is it!
Be Safe!