That's a reference like "An ACAS report in November 1938 " emphasising the delights of fireworks above 20mm. As your scrap of paper notes, Police are only too happy to see you load up a pre-1920 muzzle cannon. Keep a cork in the powder-hole to deter wasps, hornets and hail stones , dab some paint for sighting the culprit and cruise in comfort and security.

Just because we're old doesn't mean we are defenceless. Go old fella. I bet the training just kicked in & you reacted. Still got it.

He hasn't still got it. The M60 machine gun is the bare minimum for vehicles , on foot it's the M16 rifle. Pistols are for cooks and starched shirts.

nnn,

".... , on foot it's the M16 rifle...."

The semi-automatic version of which is going to be issued to NSW Police; seems someone did some testing and, wonder of wonders, found that the average policeman could shoot more accurately with a rifle than with a pistol.

Bloody amazing!!

"Glock pistols could become rifles: NSW Police looking at new technology to deal with terror attacks"

Apparently they have given up on this "brilliant" idea,
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/glock-pistols-could-become-rifles-nsw-police-looking-at-new-technology-to-deal-with-terror-attacks/news-story/c95e1d384eb56e18171888b79c2a3eb3

and are looking at the M4
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nsw-police-can-soon-use-longarm-semiautomatic-guns/news-story/016f7325cf77df8cd7e857123955b598

"“The tests carried out showing the comparison between an ordinary trained cop using a standard glock compared to the long-arm were staggering,[who would ever have guessed?]” a NSW officer told The Saturday Telegraph.

“Using a Glock at 25m, 50m and above the ­officer shooting at an active shooter would also hit three other people, whereas with the rifle the shooter was taken out without any innocent bystanders injured at all.”

Dear Is Mise;

You wrote;

"We do have a gun culture in Australia and it is growing; we are, thanks to John "Bullet Proof Vest" Howard the only country in the world that has a political party that is not only shooter oriented but is mainly made up of shooters/gun owners/collectors and it now has members in three States and is organized in all States."

Oh I am fully aware of the lobbying against, and the dilution of, our gun laws here in this country. I was talking to a Berretta rep about a year ago who said their sales, particularly of pistols, had skyrocketed over the last three years. He said with a wink that as a company they had spent a lot of 'political' money and it was paying off. It was also from educating the shooting community how far to push the rules.

I fully expect these to be added to the arsenal held by our criminal classes as stolen weapons make up the majority of these weapons.

I am also a realist an expect a mass shooting within the next three to five years in this country as a result of people like yourself feeling it is your god given right to put the rest of us in harms way.

And you guys will use it as an excuse to 'arm teachers' or some such ridiculous crap. But we have come too far. When it happens, and it will, the courage of Howard will be remembered and we will as a nation go there again.

Those lives will be on your head my friend. Hope you are prepared to shoulder them, a burden born out of selfishness and false pride.

"..shooting at an active shooter would also hit three other people,."
This is where the yank in his tank shows he's got it. With 2 perps holding 1 pistol he has a choice of Glock black block-buster or the ever-popular grapeshot cannon . A whole black feral gang in 1 grapeshot with black gunpowder , reload and drive on.