Australia once again "enjoying" the benfits of having a national gun owners registry:
http://tamworth.yourguide.com.au/detail....3134&y=2004&m=2
Gun owners facing audit
Tuesday, 3 February 2004
POLICE will target gun owners in a series of surprise weapon safety audits across the Oxley Local Area Command and the State in coming weeks.
The audit is aimed at preventing theft and injury caused by the unsafe storage of firearms, such as under a bed or in a cupboard, an unfortunate circumstance of improper firearm storage that police often have to deal with.
Oxley Local Area Command Inspector Tony Rogers said licence holders were required under the Firearms Act to keep their weapons and ammunition locked in a storage case as required for the class of firearm.
Police have detailed files of thousands of licence holders and have already begun random visits in the Tamworth area. The audit will extend the throughout the command area.
Inspector Rogers said it was a condition of the licence for gun owners to allow police onto their premises for safety inspections.
He said up to 10 police would carry out the operation throughout the day and also evenings.
Category C, D and H firearms must be stored in a locked steel safe. When both longarms and pistols are being stored, then pistols can be stored in a longarms safe provided the pistols are secured by other means inside the safe. If the number of firearms stored exceeds 15, the safe must be located in a premises which is either fitted with a monitored alarm system or staffed 24-hours-a-day.
My comments:
Obviously, this does nothing to impact the criminal. Their records (thousands of detailed records on gun owners) only include law-abiding citizens. So the crooks won't be suffered the indignity of forced inspections.
Doncha just love the storage requirements here? If handguns are stored by themselves, simply being inside a locked steel safe is considered perfectly acceptable. But if somehow you wish to store both long guns & handguns, you either need 2 safes, or the handguns must be secured in some additional manner inside the one safe. What, do they expect the long guns to somehow empower the little guns?
WTF, over? The only way that can possibly make sense to anyone is if they're so far out there that normal reasoning does not work for them.
http://tamworth.yourguide.com.au/detail....3134&y=2004&m=2
Gun owners facing audit
Tuesday, 3 February 2004
POLICE will target gun owners in a series of surprise weapon safety audits across the Oxley Local Area Command and the State in coming weeks.
The audit is aimed at preventing theft and injury caused by the unsafe storage of firearms, such as under a bed or in a cupboard, an unfortunate circumstance of improper firearm storage that police often have to deal with.
Oxley Local Area Command Inspector Tony Rogers said licence holders were required under the Firearms Act to keep their weapons and ammunition locked in a storage case as required for the class of firearm.
Police have detailed files of thousands of licence holders and have already begun random visits in the Tamworth area. The audit will extend the throughout the command area.
Inspector Rogers said it was a condition of the licence for gun owners to allow police onto their premises for safety inspections.
He said up to 10 police would carry out the operation throughout the day and also evenings.
Category C, D and H firearms must be stored in a locked steel safe. When both longarms and pistols are being stored, then pistols can be stored in a longarms safe provided the pistols are secured by other means inside the safe. If the number of firearms stored exceeds 15, the safe must be located in a premises which is either fitted with a monitored alarm system or staffed 24-hours-a-day.
My comments:
Obviously, this does nothing to impact the criminal. Their records (thousands of detailed records on gun owners) only include law-abiding citizens. So the crooks won't be suffered the indignity of forced inspections.
Doncha just love the storage requirements here? If handguns are stored by themselves, simply being inside a locked steel safe is considered perfectly acceptable. But if somehow you wish to store both long guns & handguns, you either need 2 safes, or the handguns must be secured in some additional manner inside the one safe. What, do they expect the long guns to somehow empower the little guns?
WTF, over? The only way that can possibly make sense to anyone is if they're so far out there that normal reasoning does not work for them.