Posted on 10/01/2017 4:37:11 AM PDT by marktwain
David Dunstan, a farmer in Victoria, about 10 miles outside the Australian town of Albury, found himself confronting a teen armed with a knife and a large club at 3 a.m. on the 14th of September, 2017. He slammed shut the door, and called for his wife to get the key to the gun cupboard.
He retrieved an unloaded .22 rifle, and used it to convince the thug that he should get in a car and drive to the police station.
The offender is in jail without bail. He is suspected of invading another house just hours previously.
A farmer who armed himself with an unloaded gun to protect his family from a knife-wielding thug says he fears the justice system is “stacked against” victims. Father-of-three David Dunstan, 52, was left reeling after police turned up at his property near the NSW-Victorian border to investigate the home invasion — and confiscated the farmer’s legal firearms while they were there, the Herald Sun reports.It came after the cattle and crop farmer confronted a teen armed with a knife and a block of wood who knocked on his back door about 3am last Thursday.“He had a seven foot log of red gum in his hand a knife concealed in the other,” Mr Dunstan said.
I know a little about the intricacies of firearms law in Australia. I am not surprised he had his guns confiscated. He may not get them back. He may lose his license.
The critical statement is that he called to his wife to get the key to gun cupboard. My understanding is that is strictly forbidden by Australian law.
License holders are forbidden from allowing anyone else to have access to their firearms,
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Australian weapons law follows the English precedent in this.
A correction is necessary in the article.
Firearms owners are not completely forbidden from allowing other people to have access to their firearms.
It is partially allowed if the access is in the license holders presence and under his supervision.
My understanding is that access by anyone other than the license holder, to stored firearms, is strictly forbidden.
Complete insanity. An ancestor for both the English and the Australians was the Yeoman longbowman, an armed commoner. How far these counties have strayed from the common sense of Common Law.
Australian states must have frequent “amnesties” for firearms to be turned in due to smuggling new or replacement ones brought in by boat or airplane. Gangs are converting starter pistols into workable firearm in many instances too.
A man’s home is not his castle there.
I had a uncle who helped defend Australia during World War II.
When China threatens to invade Australia someday, don’t call America; call the wife to get a key to the gun cupboard.
Wouldn’t visit Oz for all the tea in China.
Why should I travel? I already live in the best country in the world.
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