Yep, around here you just back a wood chipper up to a cat fish pond. Pro tip: Freeze the body first and its easier to clean.
Maybe there is a reason these guys are so big?
Posted on 10/19/2017 8:34:55 PM PDT by Simon Green
Australian gun rights advocates have raised $21,000 to help a farmer get back his firearms and gun license, which were taken after after he used an unloaded gun to protect his family against a knife-wielding trespasser.
David Dunstan encountered the trespasser, who was armed with a knife and wooden club, at the back door of his Riverine property in the eastern state of New South Wales last month, according to a GoFundMe page set up to raise money for the farmer. Dunstan then grabbed his unloaded .22-caliber rifle and was able to ward off the man and convince him to sit in his car as Dunstan’s wife called the police.
Officers then came to Dunstan’s property and arrested the man in the driveway. However, police also returned later that day to confiscate the farmer’s firearms and gun license.
So far no charges have been pressed against Dunstan, but his firearms and license have not been returned, the Herald Sun reported. To date, the GoFundMe page has raised $21,000 to help the farmer legally fight for the return of his guns and license.
“I am amazed by the support. So many people are concerned about what right they have got and self-defense,” Dunstan told the Herald Sun.
“I just look at it as a waste of taxpayers money because every case is different and this is a totally different situation to people not using their guns correctly,” he continued. “Sometimes you just need a bit of common sense.”
Combined Firearms Council Victoria chairman Bill Paterson said the gun rights community had rallied behind the farmer because many think he did nothing wrong. He noted that police have not told him exactly why his firearms and license were confiscated.
According to the New South Wales Firearms Legislation (Amendment) Act 1992, gun owners are required to cite a “genuine reason” for possessing firearms, and personal protection is not considered a “genuine reason” in the state.
Now with this incident, it appears even lawfully owned guns cannot be used in self-defense, as Dunstan was a licensed firearms owner. Such a slippery slope has Paterson and other gun rights advocates seriously concerned.
“When you understand the situation it seems over the top,” Paterson said. “From a civil liberties point of view it is pretty horrendous that a man who relies on his guns can have this happen.”
Guns are Personal protection...
First and Foremost!
Australia still has a hardcore of Marxists, Marxist politicians and idiots. This case is proof of that. Time for a “’RO REVOLUTION” down-under.
Australians = chattel.
Well, Australia has had millions of sheep for quite a while...
BTTT
[[which were taken after after he used an unloaded gun to protect his family against a knife-wielding trespasser.]]
What the heck? Would the Australian gov have preferred he be killed by the knife wielding assailant?
[[gun owners are required to cite a “genuine reason” for possessing firearms, and personal protection is not considered a “genuine reason” in the state.]]
Ah- ok- Australia sucks
or i should say the Aussie government sucks
People in countries like this need to learn to quit calling the cops and start learning how to dispose of bodies.
Indeed. "Call the cops", they say, and they screw around with you? Yes, people thereabouts will take lessons from what happened there. Shoot, shovel, shut up.
It’s not like they’re going to be whacking someone in the public eye and/or beloved by the community. Heck, the authorities probably wouldn’t notice until a trend started of repeat offenders not showing up at the jail anymore. And it’s Australia to boot, things er poisonous there mate! ;-)
Yep, around here you just back a wood chipper up to a cat fish pond. Pro tip: Freeze the body first and its easier to clean.
Maybe there is a reason these guys are so big?
The American “gun grabbers” wet dream. They dream of the day that all Americans will be left defenseless and unable to harm criminals that are there to harm them. After all, most crime is not done by law abiding people...only human trash that never obeyed a law, direction or rule in their lives and have never been punished for doing so.
Picture of an Australian garbage disposal.
I think the short answer is Yes. Leftists really believe that is the moral choice.
And that is the mindset that leads to gun confiscation. American liberals feel the same way about self-defense.
I think the get a number of details wrong in this story.
Dunstan lives in Victoria, not New South Wales (his farm is near the border).
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2017/09/australian-gun-culture-part-26-guns.html
Everything I’ve seen about this says he lives in Bungowannah, which is in New South Wales - only just but definitely in New South Wales.
It matters because I think he’d be better off if he lived in Victoria - NSW Police take a harder line on the rules concerning firearms storage than Victoria does (his wife knowing where the key was is a potential problem in New South Wales - it wouldn’t be in Victoria).
I’m pretty sure he’ll get his firearms back and keep his licence in the end - it’s just likely to take two or three years for the court process to be followed. That’s one of the biggest problems here - even when the law is on your side, it takes way too long to get a decision. Local police should be allowed to exercise common sense on this, rather than have to take it to court.
Early reporting errors, I guess.
Might actually be better for him in New South Wales, if the case goes into November.
In November, the NSW law is reformed to allow the police to exercise judgment in cases involving “safe storage”.
That’s good. I find that is when the laws actually work reasonably well here - not that I like them but we have to live with them - when police are allowed to exercise their own commonsense and judgement, most of the time, they seem to get it right. We get real problems when they have no choice but to follow procedures that aren’t designed to be flexible.
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