And he needs it readily to hand for 'visitors', to protect his 'stash' and with his 'go to' stuff for departure.

Contrary to what Hollywood portrays, the firearms and other weapons held by criminals are usually in poor condition, not maintained and the offender is untrained and poorly skilled. No pride of ownership or personal regard. Not that it matters much given the planned and opportunistic cowardly attacks by such ferals.

Weapons goes with drugs, goes with gangs. Astounding to read in another thread that some OLO posters do not believe there are gangs. I don't know why anyone would be denying the existence of the many very serious criminal gangs now in Australia thanks to immigration and imported bosses, professional enablers, drug trafficking contacts and expertise, ways and means.

Of course the older posters here can go back many years recalling the scoffing and insistence by governments, that there were criminal gangs in Australia. That was to protect the sacred cow of mass immigration.

Yet the Whitlam Labor government, to take one instance, had as Minister for Immigration the 'father of multiculturalism' Al Grassby, who was close to the Griffith & Melbourne Mafia Dons. But then governments have turned a blind eye to and denied other criminals in their ranks, such as the infamous child molester, Labor Party MP Bill D'Arcy,
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/bill-darcy-out-of-jail/news-story/bf48f0fe5a8f6a384de7ac3434a4bfb2?sv=283627f33f5bfab93dcbf2126991bc0c

Premier Campbell Newman, whose VLAD law and other initiatives, still strongly supported by police, business and the public (but later scuttled by Labor and Greens), quickly disrupted drug trafficking and criminal gangs generally, also tried to make Queensland the safest place to raise a child, but inexplicably Labor was obstructive.
http://statements.qld.gov.au/Statement/2013/12/8/labors-weak-sex-offender-laws-under-review

It should be obvious to the members of political parties like Labor that reject intra-party democracy, deny democracy for members, that something just might be going on in the background. The remedy is obvious.

"Of course the older posters here can go back many years recalling the scoffing and insistence by governments, that there were criminal gangs in Australia. That was to protect the sacred cow of mass immigration"

To make my meaning plain, police who found evidence of the existence of criminal gangs found themselves transferred to country locations for the remainder of a short, troublesome career. Newspapers generally muted, make that censored, reports of criminal gangs. However the occasional well-researched report, albeit severely pruned, found its way into the public arena, perhaps through the calculated 'inattention' of an editor who was exasperated by black-outs by management in cahoots with the political elite.

leoj, you fail to mention one of the worst political criminals in the history of the state of NSW, Liberal Primer Robin Askin (1966-75). Askin presided over a corrupt government, promoting criminal police to the rank of Commissioner. Askin and others were taking cash bribes from organized crime. in return for favor. The Joh Bjelke-Petersen government in Queensland was no better. Both had a high tolerance for gun ownership.

Paul1405,

Corruption is corruption.

Have you managed to find 'Professor' Alpers academic qualifications yet?

leoj, because you are not happy with the message, you want to shoot the messenger. Professor Alpers qualification stack up most favorably when compared to the qualifications of that gun crazy pair of nitwits sitting in the NSW Legislative Council, at taxpayer expense, Tweedle-Dumb, and his equally silly sidekick, Tweedle-Even-Dumber from The Shooters and Hooters Party. But anyone with a third grade education would outshine that pair of dills.
What qualifications do the two Tweedle's have? None what so ever!

So, 'Professor' Alpers' elusive academic qualifications are.....?