Despite the gunnies fanatical calls to "hide your guns!". the Gun Amnesty continues to go ahead in leaps and bounds. In the Wagga area of NSW alone. over 200 guns have been handed in... a fantastic result. The biggest haul has been at Wagga with 75 guns, followed by Temora with 20 guns, Junee reported 10 so far while the tiny hamlet of Lockhart has even had two guns handed in, possibly by a couple of local Nazi's. Other items handed in include six mortar shells, detonators and fireworks!

“Guns only need to be out there if they’re absolutely necessary and we’re grateful that the community has seen that and brought in over 200 firearms which is an extraordinary effort,” Wagga Police Inspector Adrian Telfer said.

Paul & Co,

Which are the laws that you and the Greens claim to have been weakened?

Put up or shut up!

The truth is that no laws have been weakened, despite the Greens lies to that effect.

So, Paul & Co now's your chance, prove me wrong.

The Gun Amnesty has been a success if one thinks that 10% 0f the 260,000 illegal firearms said to be out there in the community is a significant number.
It has also been a success if the criminals have handed in their guns.

Who thinks that this is so?

One hopes that when it is over the Government will publish a breakdown of the firearms handed in so that we can all know just how many of the guns worked, were old air rifles etc., and how many were antique firearms that didn't need to be registered anyhow.

There are quotes that guns from the 1850s were handed in, surely there is a legal obligation for the Government to tell people that antiques do not have to be registered and do not have to be surrendered, except revolvers, in some States and these may be registered and kept.
Will the Government compensate the owners of antiques that were handed in in error?

Will the 30th of February become Australia Day?

Paul1405,

You are on record in this very thread, big-noting yourself as usual, while bragging about your vandalism shooting bottles in the country and leaving the glass for the unsuspecting and animals to be crippled.

You are completely ignorant of the regulations, untrained, unlicensed (of course!) and never passed the character-checking by police that the thousands of respectable licensed citizens have, yet you presume to slag them by conflating them with criminals.

What for? To get sorry headlines for the NSW'Eastern Bloc Greens, the 'wrecking balls' who are treacherous within their own party.

You have already been found out for misquoting an A/G Asst Commissioner, NSW police, but you ignored that, no correction as usual,
Page 6 of this thread, leoj, Thursday, 7 September 2017 11:35:19 PM

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=7914&page=6

Regarding the political show of the gun amnesty, it is mainly a pile of rusting, inoperative gun parts (accepted and counted as 'guns'), toys ('nerf' guns are accepted and counted!), stuffed slug guns and old firearms that could be registered and many are registered as a consequence. In a stroke of a pen, Howard's 'initiative' (sic) made thousands of previously legal ordinary long arms 'illegal' which most commonly means unregistered through no bureaucratic form being completed and no tax being paid.

Where forgotten old clunkers are found they are turned in by the responsible citizens.

There has never been a suggestion that anything turned in was ever involved in a crime, nor might any be.

No sign of those rocket launchers 'lost' by the government though. Or the crate of modern pistols similarly 'lost' by police.

I reckon that the public is fast waking up to false news and to governments that stage political events, side shows, like amnesties, refusing to have a permanent amnesty which might make sense.

Meanwhile in the ACT, where Greens and Labor dominate,

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-19/bikies-act-government-pressed-on-laws-shooting/8723878

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/the-great-bikie-club-schism-that-sparked-the-battle-for-canberras-south-side-20170720-gxfhd6.html

The same Labor and Greens that in Queensland were responsible for the gelding and 'deep sixing' of the successful anti-criminal gang, anti-bikie, VLAD* law introduced by courageous (now ex-)Premier and Duntroon graduate Campbell Newman, who along with his family were the subjects of death threats by the violent drug trafficking gangs.

*VLAD law, 'Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment Act 2013 is an act of the Parliament of Queensland, enacted to "severely punish members of criminal organisations that commit serious offenses"'. [Wikipedia]

Leo the lemon, half as smart, but twice as bitter.
Issy, what do you want to dispute? The Gun Amnesty is going great guns. Just listen to Wagga Police Inspector Adrian Telfer, his officers, and the rest of the local community. are just that little bit safer than there were a little while ago, thanks to the GA.

Paul,

Which laws have been weakened?

Just tell us and shew me up, please, pretty please?