[Theoria]

[JRandomFreeper]

You'll put your eye out, kid.

/johnny

[ansel12]

Man, talk about a boys fantasy come true, this find is the thing of dreams.

[Little Ray]

What a great find!

[LearsFool]

Let me get this straight: The assumption is that it was lost there in its day, and has been there ever since?

So if John Glenn had lost a Ming vase while out collecting moon-rocks, that would prove what exactly?

[Redleg Duke]

And the government arrested him and his Father for illegally owning a firearm.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

500 years? Wow that’s almost as old as Obama saying “the rich must pay their fair share”

[yarddog]

I used to work with a Filipino who was retired from the Navy. One day we were discussing the college he attended in the Philippines.

He said the college had actually been founded by Portuguese earlier than the Philippines had officially been discovered.

[Darksheare]

And Australian officials haven’t busted him for having a dangerous ‘illegal weapon’ yet?
Considering how stupid they’ve been previously, I’m surprised.

[dog breath]

It is a boy's dream, I used to visit old Civil War battlefields with my dad and would look around for rusting guns. It took me to about 10 or so to realize why I never would find them, but I would of been in heaven to find something like this. Australia has lots of unknown history they genetically trace several different arrivals of aboriginal peoples.

[Ax]

There is NO way I’d EVER go barefoot in Australia with all the spiders, scorpions and poisonous snakes there.

[PIF]

The Portuguese had many secret navigation charts - these were the “top secret code word - eyes only” items of their day.

All of them were kept in the Lisbon Library which was totally demolished in the 18th Century by a mega-tsunami. So today, we have no idea what the Portuguese navigators knew or where they sailed.

There was a web site called Mysterious Australia which cataloged lots of stuff which predated the modern discovery of Australia, including, as I recall, many old Portuguese guns, swords, and armor found here an there over time. There are also supposed to be Megalithic structures as well.

But like most of these finds attributed to the Portuguese, there is no real documentation, like in situ photos, etc. So they are continually dismissed by the intelligencia.

[John O]

I’m soooo confused.. Darwin? Portugese swivel gun? How could this have evolved????

[Eye of Unk]

Wow I’m surprised to even see any news at all about Oz, seems to me the MSM in America just does not know what to do about Australia, the Land Down Under, the country of low unemployment and a higher rated country to live in.

And contrary to what most people think you can own a gun in Oz, and if for some reason your choice of gun requires too much paperwork then just make your own.