Australia, home to some of the world’s most draconian gun control laws. Also home to “gun crime.” While no amount of evidence [of gun control’s failure to control crime] will deter the civilian disarmament industry complex from its unstated statist goals, it’s worth noting that bad guys in The Land Down Under don’t seem to have any trouble acquiring firearms. And training those guns on each other, those they wish to intimidate and, on occasion, innocent passersby. Here’s a list of recent gunpowder-related troubles in Australia’s capitol city [via news.com.au], not including the headline story about “TWO men [who] were blasted by shotguns and three men were arrested less than an hour later while a house was also shot up in Sydney’s west this morning” or 287 other recorded shootings since Australian Premier Barry O’Farrell took office in March 2011 . . .
On Monday night a 13-year-old girl was blasted in the back with a shotgun by three men looking for her brother with alleged Brothers 4 Life links at a house on Sunnyholt Rd, Blacktown.
On the same night a woman’s car was fired upon in a road rage attack at Iris St, Riverwood.
On Sunday night Brothers 4 Life gang member, Michael Odisho, 27, was shot in the thighs and arms at his Winston Hills home.
On the same night shots were fired into a three-storey townhouse on Blaxell St, Granville.
Early on Monday morning shots were also fired at a house on McGuirk Way, Rouse Hill about 4am.
Last week Mahmoud Hamzy, 25, a cousin of jailed killer Bassam Hamzy, was shot dead by three gunmen inside the garage of his home at Revesby Heights.
Later in the week Raymond Pasnin, 27, was killed after he was shot five times in the back as he walked towards his Subaru Impreza parked in the driveway of his mother’s Pendle Hill home.
how do i submit my entry? and where do i submit it to?
umm,
you were going to shoot Hogs… but wouldn’t take a deer because you drove the car and not the truck.
How were you going to get the hog out?
Deer are delicious wonders of nature. None of them should ever be wasted
The local hog population knocked my friend’s mom over and broke her ribs. Worms gotta eat . . .
My favorite is shot is this one from Montana.
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Bull elk tied on top of hatchback.
-bsd
When my daughter and I went to Firearms / Hunter Safety (I didn’t have to go, but I figured I might as well go with to brush up on some basics, some changes to laws, and show my daughter you’re never too old to learn, anyways…), they said that there’s 10% of the population that hunts, 10% of the population that is dead-set against it, and 80% that is generally ambivalent – but when you start “open carrying” bloody massacres on the hood of your car and drive through town, it tends to sour public hunting opinion. They suggested you truck it and / or tarp the harvest in a way that seems to be respectful of your quarry – and the general public.
Looks like the Roll Crimp is making a comback! I noticed Dan did not use the term roll crimp. I trust Winchester did not prohibit the use of that term. After all the industry spent a lot of money promoting the fold crimp back in the late ’50s and early ’60s.
As for using the resin technology with buckshot – it just might work and the roll crimp will give more room for a larger pellet load
Couple of corrections:
Barry O’Farrell is the Premier of the state of New South Wales. It’s equivalent to a governorship in the US.
Sydney is the largest city and the capital of NSW, but is not the not the capital of Australian, which is Canberra. These news reports refer to areas in Sydney and NSW, which has a population similar to Washington State.
Australia has had at least one ‘mass shooting’ since the new gun laws were introduced in 1996. Arson has replaced firearms as the mass murders weapon of choice in several instances e.g. the 2011 Quakes Hill fire which killed 21 in a nursing home.
Just got my first wild hog the other day (.270, 230 yards across open field). The problem is so bad that I saw three distinct packs on one farm in two days of hunting, about 42 hogs in all. And that, I hear from local ranchers and farmers, is nothing. Seeing them first hand really is eye-opening to the damage they do, and I’m more than happy, happy, happy to help out the farmers & ranchers and hone my shooting skills at the same time.
Dear Mr. Farago,
I’m not sure if it just building your hubris about gun rights, but, please stop bragging about (if not bragging, then, making to light) the fact that people don’t want to interview you. To them you are the Alex Jones, they want to tear you down, except you aren’t irrational. There is no market appeal in that. I believe that the old rope-a-dope technique would serve your chances at getting some air time. Talk to them, say that you will make some concessions and kiss ass until you are on live TV where people will hear your voice; and then rail into them with all the vitriol I know is in your heart. Those people that come to TTAG mostly just want to hear what they already know, if you want to effect a change, there are plenty of young people watching talk shows and spending hours reading the news. These are the influential, open minded people that you need to reach to; not through the fervent keywords that the republicans use, but the kind of explanation you would give someone generally interested in guns. Kids don’t Google Caligula just to see the entire massacre, but they want to know the history behind the man. Much the same can be said about the “dangerous” guns, you know, all of them.
Jon Stewart, Bill Maher & Steven Colbert are all examples of people that were previously leprous interviews… so many have changed. The reason is that these people actually mange to go and talk to the people that they dislike and hold a discourse that is beyond cutting each other off and name calling. You know how they do it? They do it with false pretenses; they let the guests know that there will be a lively banter and the liberal jab before the real issues are debated. Can we as POTG not abide this? There has to be a discourse between two dissenting ideas before a compromise can be made.
People today are much better informed and willing to make their beliefs on fact that they can get in installments on lien rather than listen to stories told to them by people who A) Have absolutely no concrete evidence B) Are known to be on the air 24/7 to create news (why else is it on 24/7). Young men and women do not give a shit about what all these old people see as correct we are just waiting our turn. In 20 years the United States will go the way of the empire that the sun never sets on. We have no capital but we have trillions in military equipment. It is very hard to convince someone such as myself to believe that Iran having nuclear weapons is a bigger problem to me than the fact that I hold a 2009 Fisher College of Business degree that has gotten me exactly nothing. What is the real concern for Americans under 28? I know that the stock market tanked just as I was getting my undergrad and I was pretty bummed out about that. Was I awestruck beyond words when I witnessed South Tower explode when I was in 2nd period of my sophomore year? – Yes
The difference here lies within the same reasoning- there is a clear and set way for me to set my career path straight – get my CPA. What millions of young Americans do not see an easy way out of is more war. We have been involved in an ongoing conflict in 2 (3 if you count Pakistan) foreign countries while doing any damn bit of good in the region except making a lot more holes. When we leave, we leave with damn-as-near-it the same problems we had when we came, except Pakistan is not so very happy with us.
The millions of vets that are coming home will need to be re-assimilated into the real world, and, they will need millions of jobs to do it- Money to come from where?
I come from Lima, OH where all the M1 Abrahams are retrofitted and where most of the Strykers are built. I’m sorry to say that we have so many goddamn tanks parked in a lot doing nothing that it is sickening to think that we can have such a debt, and yet not want to yard sale a couple of hundred million dollars of equipment that we have, as well as, the very expensive repair parts that we have to repair this parked equipment.
You know, If we get a flat.
Marlin
Field dress, skin and quarter them out in camp and then put them in an ice chest. That’s how I manage in my wagon. Oh, and that’s legal in Texas by the way.
This was truly a refreshing piece and am absolutely shocked that it aired on, of all places, CNN. But this being the case I follow the rule: Better to have and not need than to need and not have.
And the NICS background checks would be under reported. With a Concealed Carry permit in AZ, they don’t need to call in the background check.
Agreed, thank them for the guns, and continue with the pressing of charges. Like I said in another post, it is time for gun activists to stop playing defense and start playing offense. Stop cutting our losses and win some ground. Getting the guns back and being put on probation was cutting losses, winning a felony conviction against the university for theft would be winning ground.
I hope these guys have some good legal representation, as I bet being able to keep that theft charge in their back pocket will be handy for ensuring the university treats them fairly and allows them to complete their degrees.
Damn, ever since that MAC10 stole Nick’s car, it seems like the hatchet just plain ain’t buried….
political power comes from the end of a gun – Moa
Commie tards