Australias' own Philip Alpers offers a warning that ".... PROPOSED changes to handgun laws under the incoming Trump government could deliver Americans “a spate of gun killings like they have never seen before”.

That’s the grim warning from Australian international firearms expert Philip Alpers, who was working in the US during the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and has spent decades researching gun safety."
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Adjunct Professor Alpers, distinguished from his University peers by an utter lack of any academic achievement or training is doing his bit for his own career as usual.

Mr Alpers...(Kiwi) another graduate of the CIA trained Dr Rebecca Peters - School for Patsies and Gun Control.

From: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/cp/australia

"From the reports in which numbers were published, a total of 948,388 firearms were surrendered to police for destruction. Of these, 67,488 (7.1%) were collected before the federal long-gun buyback which followed the 1996 Port Arthur tragedy. In the 1996-97 National Firearms Buyback of rapid-fire long guns (mainly semi-automatic rifles but also self-loading and pump-action shotguns) and in the 2003 National Handgun Buyback which followed, Australians gave up for destruction 728,667 newly prohibited firearms in return for market-value compensation.

Having measured the scale of the Australian experiment with more accuracy, I have found that at least 219,721 additional firearms were surrendered for destruction – a number which until now has been untallied and largely unrecognized. Although the Australian initiative was most often described as a "buyback" in which gun owners received cash compensation, of all the weapons handed in for destruction since 1988, nearly one in four yielded no financial return to its owner (Alpers and Wilson, 2013). Such was the swing in public opinion that large numbers of gun owners sent lawfully held firearms to the smelter, even when there was no obligation to do so."

Makey - learney 'Professor' Alpers, who wouldn't know a butt stock from a bullet is now Australia's pre-eminent "expert" on matters pertaining to gun control and the emerging Guru post Peters.

See: http://elissahawke.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/nwo-port-arthur-massacre-mass-shootings.html

and:

http://www.toben.biz/2013/10/joe-vialls-ari-and-jim-stone-in-the-mouse-that-roared/

"Curiouser and curiouser" - said the Walrus to the Seal! Waaay too much detail and fact (along with evidence) was never ever tendered at Martin Bryants stitch up. Much more has since disappeared.

My bet is that yet another "mass shooting" is about to happen in the USA.

This little snippet from Peter's essay (first link by Albie)

" As outlined in the essay by Rebecca Peters (in this volume), in the late 1990s all Australian states and territories agreed to new uniform legislation,"

20 years on and the legislation is still not uniform,

example (one of many):

Fired, inert empty cartridge cases are scrap metal in most States but in Western Australia it is an offence to possess even one fired case.

One wonders where Dr. Peters got her information from, certainly not from rigorous academic research of the level required of first year undergraduates.

The biggest hurdle to 'uniform gun laws' is the lawyers themselves. God forbid that any affront to their Golden Goose is challenged by bringing in sensible, easy to read i.e. Plain English legislation, let alone something vaguely resembling uniform road rules across this nation.

That it can take weeks and even years to obtain through the courts an extradition order for criminals to be moved from one jurisdiction to another speaks of the cumbersome, anachronistic systems in play.

Federation anyone ?

Philip Alpers is well known in his birthplace, New Zealand.

""Professor" Philip Alpers unmasked.

Published in NZG&J Issue #90 Sept/Oct 05


A number of incredulous shooters contacted SSANZ to ask how, in a recent NZ Herald article on firearm problems in Papua New Guinea, (04.07.05), anti-gun lobbyist Philip Alpers managed to be described at least eight times as “Professor Alpers”. Surely this was in jest?

We were pretty amazed ourselves at Alpers new title. In July 1991 his academic record was laid out in startlingly different terms by Deborah Coddington, (now the MP, but then a writer for North & South magazine): Alper’s late mother is quoted directly; “I remember (Philip) coming to me when he’d failed UE and asking if he had to go to university, and I said, “For God’s sake no”. If that was his attitude to university, he’d better stay home”. However, Alpers must have had a partial change of mind as he told Coddington then that he “sat in on lectures at university without enrolling”. Now let’s keep in mind that a professorship normally entails 8 or 9 years study to obtain a doctorate and several more years post-doctoral research at a tertiary institution. Was Alpers perhaps trading on an honorary doctorate in a manner that one of our MP’s was recently chastised for?"

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Few voters support more centralisation of power in Canberra. The home insulation scandal is one example of the rarified atmosphere in Canberra and the feds stuffing up.

Also, Canberra's politicians excel at political populism and obfuscation, ducking any serious issue (and ministerial responsibility!) and are particularly averse to long-term planning. They excel at travelling overseas and finding ways to extend their pay and entitlements.

'Professor' Alpers?
http://ssaa.org.au/news-resources/know-your-opponent/philip-alpers-a-most-dubious-researcher/

and

http://corregidor.org/acgq/web_redirect_3628.3645.8883/forum_pages/article_alpers.html

Sydney University may have some explaining to do if 'research' is not being properly peer reviewed, specifically by being published in academic publications of substance. Where is the professional academic scrutiny/QA by Sydney University?

If Sydney University cannot find anyone with a recognised level of academic attainment and relevant expertise, there are other universities who can help it out.