Ping naturalman1975
The fact that Dunstan was cleared and has had his firearms returned basically confirms this.
The problem is the process he had to go through to do so.
That's what we really need to fix - the current situation in practice makes assumptions of guilt and puts a person in a situation where they wind up being forced in practice to prove themselves innocent, rather than the situation which is still meant to apply of innocent until proven guilty.
It also leaves too much in the hands of the judgement of local police in deciding how to proceed without truly making it clear to them that their judgement will be taken seriously. Most police are actually fairly sensible in my experience - but politicians and similar interfere so much that the police feel they have to be overly bureaucratic and narrow in their interpretations when they are supposed to have discretion.