Hi there SUSEONLINE...

Sorry for my delay in responding to your contribution, anyway here it is for better or worse - ? I totally support shooting as a sport and for legal hunting (I've never hunted personally, and never intend to). Provided it's properly controlled and all the checks and balances are in place, in order to reduce the incidences of criminal enterprise.

What I am concerned about is the 'types and configuration' some makers of F/A's have employed in recent years. Many medium calibres have now been designed to visually replicate a standard military assault rifle, offering designs that generally are within the exclusive purview of the military or police, why ?

I believe it's a marketing ploy calculated to attract those wannabe's who fancy themselves as SAS styled warriors, to me it's an emerging trend that should be very carefully monitored by the relevant authorities. Many thanks for your contribution.

Suse,

That's an old furphy about men with big guns, one of the reasons that there is little domestic violence in gun owning families is that very satisfied women don't get violent.

Lol Is Mise, where did you hear that domestic violence happens less about in gun owning families? I very much doubt that is true...

Hi there IS MISE...

I would have thought you may have consented to contribute to this 'rerun' of the current F/A issue. With your substantial knowledge of small arms and ballistics, your informed voice would be most welcome indeed, and I'm sure would appreciably 'value add to the debate. While it's true, you and I occasionally have a divergence in some fundamentals, but conceptually, I believe we're most assuredly on the same page.

A very successful anti-gun rally was held in Sydney yesterday, getting extensive media coverage. One of the most poignant moments during the rally was when Mary Cusumano, whose husband Angelo was shot dead, asked a gate crasher from the gun happy brigade if he had every suffered the pain and anguish of having a loved one killed by a gun, the lunatic shut up quick smart!

Why is the gun lobby demanding a new leaver action shotgun, which is capable of firing 5 rounds in 5 seconds, be added to the list of legal firearms in NSW. Why?

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/alpha-cheng-to-attend-antigun-rally-20151104-gkr3eb.html

O sung wu,

I agree with most of your observations but these add-ons are harmless
even though most of them are ugly and in a lot of cases are ineffective.
Muzzle brakes do have a legitimate role on sporting and target rifles, because they reduce recoil and muzzle jump they allow the shooter to observe the striking point of the shot through the 'scope sight without the necessity and lost time of re aligning the rifle, this helps greatly in getting away a second shot, if necessary on game and in target shooting it can save one having to use a spotting scope.
Wouldn't help me though as I don't use a 'scope sight.
On those revolving longarms, as they are licenced then the owners are not going to chop them down into pistols, remember that when they were previously banned in NSW there was no licencing.

Paul,
Lever shotguns have been around for about 150 years and 5 shots in 5 seconds isn't fast there is a video around shewing a young bloke firing 5 in 5 from a non-automatic ejector ordinary old double barreled gun. I'll have a go at finding it.

In fact I have a legal gun that can fire at the rate of two shots in a quarter of a second and its sustained rate of fire is much faster than any automatic or repeating shot gun that is in civilian hands in this or most other countries.

So get with the facts, do a bit of research.