Posted on 12/27/2004 11:35:45 AM PST by Stoat
Court hears man was armed to destroy buildingA man who threatened to blow up a Gold Coast high-rise on Christmas Eve had enough explosives to level the 15-storey building, a court has heard. Jonathon Richwood, 43, was denied bail today on charges including depravation of liberty, assault occasioning bodily harm, wilful damage and a range of weapons-related offences. The Southport Magistrates Court heard that Richwood sealed off a room in the Grand Hotel at Labrador and told police he had explosives and hostages. The court was told he had a cache of weapons including a home-made rocket launcher, four bombs, four hand grenades, two flame throwers and a shotgun. Richwood also had enough food to last 20 days, the court heard. He held police at bay for 17 hours. The 43-year-old was denied bail on the grounds he represented a serious danger to the public. He is due to face court again on January 19. |
Australia's crime rate skyrocketed after the gun ban, and it seems that someone who is determined can acquire military-grade weaponry and explosive ordnance that would have been illegal for private citizens to own before the ban anyway. The only thing that the ban has accomplished is that it has made our Australian friends less safe at home.
I keep thinking of the Simpsons, when Springfield becomes an anti-gun community.
This can't be. Banning guns should be the end to all violence. Because we all know guns kill people! No more guns. No more guns. No more guns! :)
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Two flame throwers
A homemade rocket launcher
Four grenades
A shotgun
Translated from news speak
-a couple of old cans of black powder so damp they fizzle when lit rather than explode
-two old World War II demilled flame throwers that haven't worked in 50 yrs and cant be made to work
-A ten foot piece of schedule 40 PVC pipe
-four surplus demilled WWII "pineapple grenades" inert..no explosives, no blasting cap, no spoon, no pin, available on-line or in surplus stores everywhere.
-a double barreled shotgun ala Elmer Fudd
"Richwood also had enough food to last 20 days, the court heard."
that's it. . . _NOW_ he's crossed the line. . .
/sarcasm
Actually, Australians can legally own guns including 'military grade' weapons entirely legally, despite the apparent and erroneous belief across the United States that we can't.
I'm an Australian. I own guns. Completely and entirely legally. Hundreds of thousands of other Australia's do so as well, and there are millions of legally held weapons across this country.
Don't believe everything the press tries to tell you. A lot of nonsense has been written (in Australia as well as the US) about Australia's gun laws. The laws aren't good ones - they are overly bureaucratic and overly prescriptive. But they are nothing like as bad as people seem to like to present them.
Most of the weapons destroyed for example, were voluntarily surrendered in exchance for cash. They weren't banned - most remained completely legal, in many case, people didn't even need to get a new licence.
A true Spartan?
A hunting license?
(\sarcasm)
Don't forget the family guy episode where they tried to create a society free of guns in a nuclear wasteland.
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