//In a nutshell, exercise//

ROFLMAO. If picking up a gun counts as exercise then so does picking up my playstation controller. Or my TV remote. I think when the Government talk about exercise they mean some sort of physical activity which actually requires a reasonable degree of exertion - at least enough to raise a sweat and make one short of breath. I'm not really sure that lifting a gun which has been specifically chosen because it doesn't weigh as much as others really counts, unless perhaps you're doing a whole lot of reps on that lift. But honestly, if the way you want to exercise is by lifting things up and putting them down again then you'd be better off investing in some weights (which are expressly designed for the purpose of being lifted) or a gym membership (which have all their own weights).

I find weight training to be a very dull form of exercise and prefer to go kayaking for an upper body workout, but it is effective. I can't imagine that picking up a shotgun a few times a week is going to help any fat bastards shed their excess adipose. They're gonna be better off just going for a run. If they really want, they can carry a shotgun while they're running. I find that carrying excess water in my backpack is a cheaper way to increase my weight, but if people really have their heart set on a shotgun... they should buy something heavier than the Adler to maximise their workout.

I like it Toni, if guns make you fit I would have to say, its been a failure for Slob Bob from the Shooters and Hooters Party in NSW, all 200kg of him. A good form of exercise could be if Slob Bob and his trusty sidekick Bob Ballsup were to "run" around a paddock and have the gang from here take pot shots at them with the brand spank'n new Adler popguns. Although there would be no prize for hitting Slob Bob, too big a target and too slow moving to qualify

Toni,

I hunt on the upper reaches of the eastern slopes of the Dividing Range where gullies are often deep and steep and the valleys are even better.
My preferred shotgun is lighter than the Adler.
Tramping over that country is good exercise and helps to keep me a fit 81 year old.
I still do Service Shoots with the Lee-Enfield .303 rifle, these involve running from firing point to firing point, again good exercise and with a near 10 pound weapon.

I shoot pistols as well, there is a lot of exercise involved in being able to hold a heavy pistol steady, as any dedicated pistol shooter will tell you.

Paul,

Why do the Greens endorse hunting in their firearm policies?
Why did Shoebridge vote for hunting on Government controlled land?
How many were at that meeting?

Finally why are you against law abiding citizens enjoying their lawful activities?
Is it because you don't meet the criteria to hold a firearms licence?
Have you been found wanting and the Police Commissioner doesn't consider you to be a fit and proper person?

Hi Is mise, great to hear from you on this bright and cheerful Sydney morn. I like your story, you remind me of Jed Clampett, you remember Jed, its bout a man named Jed, a poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed. And then one day, he was shootin' at some food. The rest is history.

Now about that exercise, have you ever considered taking Slob Bob along with you on one dem der critter shootin'. Bob would be about half your age, but twice your weight, that should even you up.
Seeing good old Bob Ballsup in action, he reminds me more of Jethro Bodine (Jed's nephew) except Jethro is twice as smart.

You asked "Is it because you don't meet the criteria to hold a firearms licence?
Have you been found wanting and the Police Commissioner doesn't consider you to be a fit and proper person?

No, I've never had the "pleasure" of applying for a gun licence. Never owned a gun, unless you call a water pistil as a kid a gun.

I keep answering your questions, how about a comment on 'dead eye dick' Walter 'Wacko' Palmer who killed Cecil the lion? Are you too ashamed of his actions to comment, me thinks so.

Paul,

You owned a water pistol?
Shame, one of the nastiest kinds of firearm that there could be,
if ever restrictions were necessary then they should be severely restricted.
However anyone can own a water pistol, why aren't the Greens doing something about the unrestricted availability of these nasty weapons?

"I keep answering your questions,[no you don't] how about a comment on 'dead eye dick' Walter 'Wacko' Palmer who killed Cecil the lion? Are you too ashamed of his actions to comment, me thinks so."

What Palmer did appears to have been legal but I'm not a keeper of trophies myself.

The mendacious*, hypocritical Greens clowns are muck-raking. It is all protests and headlines.

The Greens ride the totalitarian gun confiscation wagon with secret-squirrel activists who are alleged to receive support, training and funding from highly secretive overseas source/s including the SOROS corporation. Billionaire currency dealer Soros is credited with nearly sending the Bank of England to the wall, which would have lost the savings of thousands of small depositors.

Soros convicted of insider trading, France,

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2002/dec/20/france.internationalnews

It is also alleged that the SOROS corporation is involved in supporting leftist activism, an example being the '#occupy' demonstrations.

Why would a billionaire currency dealer who acquired his wealth off of the backs of small investors by gaming the stock market in other countries, want to disarm licensed citizens of western democracies? Or provide support to serial leftist activists and encourage demonstrations?

That is anybody's guess, but Australians resent and reject foreign interests interfering in domestic politics, especially behind closed doors.

More Greens Hypocrisy
In Queensland, Labor and Greens vowed in the recent election to repeal the highly successful Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment Act 2013 (VLAD). That was despite ongoing public and business objections, especially in SEQld.

Oddly (maybe not!) deep-sixing the VLAD is one of the highest priorities (along with lowering the age of consent for anal sex) of the Qld Labor government and their Greens sidekicks.

Yet the bikies and other organised gangs manufacturing and trafficking drugs are responsible for the 'Ice' epidemic and almost all of the (albeit low) incidence of gun crime in Australia.

It was never the mythical 'gun culture' that Australia has to be worried about, but the culture of imported criminal gangs. The imported criminal gangs who deal in drugs have imported their violence and corrupt political systems with them. That's diversity for you.

*mendacious

not telling the truth; lying.
"mendacious propaganda"
synonyms: lying, untruthful, dishonest, deceitful, false, dissembling, insincere, disingenuous, hypocritical, fraudulent, double-dealing, two-faced, Janus-faced, two-timing, duplicitous, perjured, perfidious.

-Describes the NSW 'Watermelon' Greens to a tee.