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Gun ownership rises 10 per cent across NSW

Emma Partridge and Conrad Walters
Date August 3, 2015 .. bits ..

Alarmingly, in 22 of the state's 600 postcodes, registered guns outnumber people.

This includes four postcodes where guns outnumber people two to one.

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NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge says gains in community safety won since the Howard government's gun buyback program in 1996 have been lost.

"Many people will be quite rightly shocked to find there are many hundreds if not thousands of guns in their suburb," Mr Shoebridge said.

"There are hundreds of thousands more guns now than following the gun buyback.

"Many farmers and primary producers have a legitimate reason for owning a firearm, but this doesn't explain the thousands and thousands of licences throughout metropolitan Sydney."

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Greens move to ban rapid fire shotgun

The Greens will move to ban a rapid-fire shotgun being imported to Australia this month.

Mr Shoebridge says 7000 pre-ordered Adler A110 Lever Action shotguns were due to arrive at a time when private gun ownership was nearing record levels.

"This is a rapid-fire firearm which fires and reloads quickly, allowing eight shots in eight seconds. Despite this, the NSW Government intends to classify it as the least restricted kind of weapon," Mr Shoebridge said.

He said the ACT had banned the gun outright because it was as dangerous as a pump-action shotgun.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/gun-ownership-rises-10-per-cent-across-nsw-20150730-ginwzw.html

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Gun ownership surges in regional towns on ACT's fringe

Henry Belot, Emma Partridge and Conrad Walters
Date August 3, 2015


More than 850,000 firearms are now legally registered in NSW. Photo: Peter Rae

Gun ownership in regional towns on the fringe of the ACT has surged by close to 25 per cent during the past five years, according to police statistics.
http://www.smh.com.au/act-news/gun-ownership-surges-in-regional-towns-on-acts-fringe-20150803-giqpeb.html

.. sport has replaced news on tv in pubs .. evermore U.S.A content on tv .. caps on backwards .. NRA influence (maybe moola, too?), more guns
.. just four of many examples of creeping Americanisation (note the hangin'in 's', though, yep, FF's speller redlines it) in Australia ..

Police officer and security guard shot at Nepean Hospital in western Sydney
Megan Levy, Rachel Olding
Date January 13, 2016
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/police-officer-and-security-guard-shot-at-nepean-hospital-in-sydney-20160112-gm4j6b.html

STILL Australia's gun laws relative to the U.S.A.'s reflect a less fear-ridden, conspiracy theory-stricken, macho-bs culture.

See my next post in reply to this one.