"The club said the application was assessed and processed in strict accordance with the legal requirements overseen by the NSW Police Firearms Registry. "Ultimately, all licence decisions are taken by the Registry."

So whose was the ultimate responsibility?

Dear Is Mise,

Yes that's right, keep trying to palm off responsibility.

This bloke was rejected by club after club until he got to your lot then he gets a ticket to kill and you want to run with 'he ticked all the legal boxes'?

Well that goes to show those legal boxes are failing us. They especially failed those two kids. The impact of your fetish and your defence of the indefensible is they now lie dead.

Either come up with a way to fix this or just get out of the bloody way.

Hear hear, Steele.

Your words are spot on, this association of gun freaks needs to fess up as to their culpability in this atrocity. Make no mistake, these are the people who facilitated Edwards licence to kill, despite his appalling record. There is no question that the licence of the St Mary’s Indoor Shooting Centre should be suspended immediately, an audit of the membership take place. A demand be made on the SSAA to explain what checks and balances if any, are in place within these shooting galleries they operate to determine the suitability of applicants.

Judging by their attitude to AVO's, (read my earlier post); Those pesky things sheilas take out against real men, just to put the kibosh on a fellas gun fun etc. That is the gun freaks organizations underlying attitude to AVO's.
NSW Labor has come out with a demand for a "review" of gun laws. A bit of a wozzie response in my opinion. Its time for tough action against the gun freaks!

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/08/john-edwards-murders-nsw-labor-calls-for-review-of-gun-laws-after-killing

Hi there STEELEREDUX...

Yup, there's obviously a failure in the system somewhere. Again, I wasn't aware of this blokes antecedents in seeking out a 'PISTOL' licence? The 'H' category (from memory) is supposed to be the most difficult licence of all? The applicant is supposed to convince you, of the need for just such a licence. With all the matters surrounding this bloke finally emerging, how in hell was he granted a Licence! Even a discharged AVO would give the copper some pause, most certainly sufficient reason for putting him through 20 questions as it were? Buggered if I know STEELEREDUX.

Its time for tough action against the gun freaks!
Paul1405,
Actually it's time for tough action for all freaks. Btw, how many have been killed with no gun involved ?

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/4510.0

//how many have been killed with no gun involved?//
I don't know Indy, but you tell me, and while your at it, tell me how it relates to the shooting deaths of Jack and Jennifer, and the family at Margaret River, and doing something about preventing others in the future. Dose some bloke getting hacked to death with a machete somehow mitigates shooting deaths?