Gun laws......gun laws.......gun laws.......

You'll never be able to please everyone. Never...........

It's a very touchy subject, whether you're in a country such as the US, where there is an inherent right written into the Constitution, for a person to bear arms or your in a country like Britain, where guns in the home are vitually unheard of, except for hunting rifles etc.

There is a middle ground too. Australia has no inherent Constitutional right (although we do have a Constitution). Most states (and the laws vary greatly) have regulations which allow rifles for hunting and sporting purposes and handguns for Security and sporting purposes. Automatic and semi-automatic rifles were banned in all States in 1998, after an especially nasty incident in Tasmania called the "Port Arthur Massacre" in which auto weapons were used by one nut to kill 30 odd people.

Anyway, I have 1 (one) single handgun, which I use for Security work (occasionally, even tho' I am disabled to a degree). I have just received a directive from the NSW Police Commisioner that states I now have to install a "back to base" monitored alarm system, which includes a sensor switch on the safe door. 
Thank God I only have 1 weapon. Thank God I work in a Security Monitoring Room. Thank God my son is a Locksmith and alarm installer!!!.........I imagine that makes me lucky!

Any Security firm with more than 1 weapon is no longer allowed to operate out of a residential premises and has to have a "vault" insyalled which can only be accessed by "remote' permission from a Control romm at a different premises. It also has to be continually monitored with CCTV facilities.

All this has come about because of a recent runof handgun thefts from Security Companies.
yes it's a knee-jerk reaction, and I think it goes a little too far. But it will certainly make less handguns available to theives.

But what about the 2000 or so that are reputed to come in via shipping containers each year, out of which 1 in 20 are physically opened and checked???

I gone and got all 'long winded" again..........................ah well

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I was waiting for someone to say this.
I grew up in a town of 281 people. Almost every single one of them own at least one gun, and I guarantee that there are more guns than people in that town.
As far as outhouses, well there are none in use these days. Sure there are some vehicles on blocks, but not anywhere near as many as you have there in St. Louis, MO. And as for the illegitimate children, well i suppose that you meant that they had lots of them, but the way you worded your post I can't figure out what exactly you were trying to say.
By putting this town of people down like that you show your own downfalls and personally I feel sorry for you that you don't come from a place like that. Take my high school for example. On any given day, you walk through the parking lot and you will find almost none of the cars locked, and almost all of them have a gun in them. Never been a shooting in my town, the only crime is some minor vandalism, and the occasional person that runs one of the two stop signs.
It never ceases to amaze me how small minded some people can be.

Just another redneck,
Kevin

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Hi Kevin... ...!
Can you explain to me, as someone who lives in a large, peacefull Town in England, where hand guns don't exist, why your Town in America should have so many hand gun owners...?
...just curious... ...!


Cheers Kevin... ...!
Paul.

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I don't know...

They look pretty hungry to me...

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I grew up in a place just like that. Not a gun in sight except the toy ones I used to play with & the rifles I was taught to use on a proper range while in the Air Cadets. I was a pretty good shot too & could strip & reassemble a Bren gun blindfold in less than 1 minute when I was 14 years old. I've never seen a handgun close up except in movies & have no wish to do so.

This is in no way intended to cause any offence. I appreciate that we have completely different cultures & to my mind this subject should be treated the same as politics & religion. The feelings run too deep for a practical discussion. If I tried for 12 months or 12 years, nothing I say will ever change anyone's point of view. I never understood it but know the right to bear arms is important to the majority of Americans. If it was ever proposed that we do the same here you wouldn't see me for dust.

I own a shotgun for Clay pigeon shooting. I don't feel it is wrong.

ah thats what I've been doing wrong all these years No wonder everybody runs the other way

Seriously I would NEVER EVER point it at any human being.