It is so disappointing that the LibLab party was returned to power and again with absolute majority.

The only good thing coming out of these elections is that the increased "crossbench" may now force them to reveal the truth and admit that they were always one and the same. As we now read in the news, this LibLab party is financed by the Chinese Communist party.

The one thing you can rely on with Leyonhelm is his consistency. He has a particular ideological stance and is true to it regardless of whether it is likely to get good press or bad. He believes in freedom and limited government. That includes the right for people to have the means to protect themselves. It means lower taxes and less government services. He is the only politician I know who does not change his mind in response to the latest moral panic. We need more like him in the parliament.

Senator for Guns 2

A Low Taxes and More Guns platform is keeping this Politician overfed.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-10/decision-on-adler-shotgun-ban-still-under-review/7311912

"A decision on the fate of the controversial Adler A110 lever-action shotgun has been delayed and may no longer be handed down before a temporary ban on its importation expires.

...Ms Loughton lost her 15-year-old daughter Sarah in the Broad Arrow Cafe at Port Arthur on April 28, 1996, and was terribly injured herself.

She still requires surgery 20 years later from a bullet wound to the shoulder."

Plantagenet,

"The gun in question is the lever action Adler A110 "shotgun" This is a semi-automatic weapon - so should be banned. But because it fires shotgun cartridge contents (making it technically a "shotgun") it can evade the semi-auto ban."

You've gotta be joking!

The Adler is but one of a number of lever action shotguns that are currently available and the type has never found much favour with shooters since first imported in the late 1890s.
Back in the 1960s good condition examples could be picked up very cheaply as no one really wanted them.
The Adler's current popularity can be traced directly to the anti factions, particularly the Greens, who gave it free publicity that the design doesn't deserve.

Regarding rate of fire, I'll back myself to fire 20 shots from my double barrel shotgun before anyone can fire the same number from an Adler.
I'll even back myself to fire five shots faster than someone with a five shot Adler if both shooters commence loading at the same time.

plantagenet,

"...Ms Loughton lost her 15-year-old daughter Sarah in the Broad Arrow Cafe at Port Arthur on April 28, 1996, and was terribly injured herself."

and Ms. Loughton is one of the ones that boosted the Adler's sales by her ill thought out appeals to prejudice in her on-line petition.

So is it the Victims of gun crimes who are at fault because they should have ducked the bullets?