//Well, Levity, US soldiers are not allowed to be armed on Base unless doing duties which require them to be armed, just the same as in Australia.//

Well I can't do much about that, can I? Take it up with U.S. Admiralty.

I'm not the soldiering type and what the various Generals/Admirals/Air Marshalls decide to do on Australian bases is not really my place to comment on as a civilian. Of course, if they're getting pressure from the Ministry of Defence then it is our right and duty as citizens to demand accountability from our Government. Why don't you write the Hon. Kevin Andrews MP a letter laying out your concerns about the lack of readily available guns in military bases? I'm sure he'll be very glad to receive it. And so will ASIO.

//Fortunately in NSW firearm inspections are carried out at a mutually agreeable time//

An inspection carried out at a mutually agreeable time is a waste of everybody's time. And my taxes.

//the NSW Police respect the fact that Licenced Firearm owners are good citizens//

Holy sh!t, the NSW police can read minds now? I'd better get myself a protective al-foil thought helmet.

//Bye the way, could you qualify for a pistol licence?//

Who knows? The question is: could I be bothered? And the answer is: no. My fishing licence costs enough and I'd much sooner spend the time, money and effort getting my boat licence even though my kayak is sufficient for my needs and doesn't need a licence. Honestly, what would I do with a pistol? What use are the damn things? Boats are fun. I really don't get why some people get so excited about guns.

Is Mise, good to see you recognise that gun control laws are necessary. A 9 year old child been given a sub-machinegun to play with is stupid in the extreme, what purpose could it possibly serve. Some in the Australia gun lobby want little or no control over guns, similar to the US model. Put simply I wish for every gun on the planet to disappear.

Paul,

Then the men with spears and swords would rule,as they did in the past before sheer physical strength was the decider.

Samuel Colt made all men and women equal,

"Fear no man, no matter his size,
Just call on me, I'll equalize."

How are you getting on with jackboots in the night as the powers move in to do an unannounced search of your home?

otb,

Listen you pest - what part of
LEAVE ME ALONE!
do you not understand.

Paul1405, "An instructor at a shooting range in Arizona has died.."

Human error. To be found in everything that people do. An example that proves the exact opposite of what you intended.

Fortunately shooting ranges are so well supervised that accidents are exceedingly rare. Police are always called and of course any accident is reported world-wide by the gun prohibition activists. So it isn't like the accidents involving hand tools, examples being chain saws and brushcutters that are easily acquired by the untrained.

You could attempt to remove all risks by wrapping people in cotton wool, but then life would be very limited indeed and more would die from diabetes and other diseases of the couch-dwelling hysterical whiners.

Toni,

Glad to see that you are a hunter.

Paul,

The subject that I raised was not guns but the arbitrary action of the PM in banning the Adler shotgun.
The gun was incidental it could have been legal dishwashers or solar battery chargers.
No one has yet come up with a reasonable explanation of the ban, it was allegedly the rate of fire but as a normal old run of the mill double barrel shotgun can fire 5 shots in 5 seconds I don't see what the problem is.