Posted on 06/04/2019 5:52:30 AM PDT by naturalman1975
Northern Territory Police say four people have died and at least one has been injured in a shooting across five locations in Darwin.
The suspected gunman, aged 45, was arrested and Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw said he had been released on parole in January and was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet.
NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner confirmed four people had died and one other was injured, but added the incident was not believed to be terror related.
The alleged gunman is being held at Royal Darwin Hospital.
NT Health said two people were at the Royal Darwin Hospital in a stable condition.
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Them there ankle bracelets don’t seem very effective to me.
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I thought they had strict gun regulations there.
Maybe they should try the wrista
Doesn’t he realize Australia bans guns?
What? I thought Aussies confiscated all guns?
Australia has not banned guns. Unfortunately this is likely to lead to further restrictions but repeating the myth that guns are banned just plays into that.
What else would you expect in a place named “Darwin”?
Good old pump shotgun. One least likely to be banned. My choice for home defense. 7x00’s do a lot of damage.
If they chained the ankle bracelet to a prison cell door it might work better.
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ROFL!!!!!!
That was good :)
Maybe they should try banning illegally owned guns this time.
Can you summarize what the Australian rules are for firearms?
Wonderful personal page tribute to your fallen countrymen!
That depends on the definition. There was also the 2002 Monash University Shooting that everyone (deliberately or otherwise) forgets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monash_University_shooting
Found on the web:
Category A is .22s, shotguns and air rifles. That’s the easiest license to obtain. No semiautomatics are allowed.
Category B is for center fire rifles. You have to provide a reason for why you need a more powerful gun.
Category C is available only to farmers; they can own a semiautomatic shotgun or .22 but the cartridges are limited to five shots for the shotgun and 10 shots for the .22.
Category D, for semiautomatic guns and rifles, is only for professional shooters: you have to have a registered business and prove that you are earning an income through shooting.
An H license is for handguns. If you want to buy a pistol in Australia you’ve got to be a member of a target pistol club. You’ve got to do a minimum of eight competition shoots per year to keep your license. If you don’t, you lose it.
Category G is for collectors. For that you’ve got to attend at least one meeting per year.
The police can and do enter your home to inspect your guns.
Aussies have proved to be pretty sheepleistic on the gun issue. During the largest amnesty, it’s estimated that 1/3 of the national gun stock was turned in.
The Monash University one doesn’t count because of definitions. Only two were killed and the definitions used for spree killing and mass shootings in criminology terms variously require a minimum of three or four fatalities.
It isn’t forgotten but it doesn’t fit the criminological criteria which had already been decided on years earlier.
There’s a secondary consideration that it was a targeted killing (one of the two deceased was deliberately targeted) which is also considered inconsistent with the spree killing classification under most definitions.
Keat has provided a fairly reasonable summary, but it doesn’t quite match the reality.
Category C licences are available to a lot more than just farmers in many states.
It’s easy to get an A/B licence. It’s not that hard to get a C licence. It’s possible to get a D licence, but difficult.
H licences are also available more broadly than to just target shooters, but that is certainly the easiest way to get a H licence.
I’m C licenced and H licenced. I have been D licenced in the past, but I let that lapse as I don’t know any weapons that require a D licence and that really did take a lot of work.
Police can legally enter your home on a random basis, or if they have suspicions to inspect your storage. It’s never happened to me in more than twenty years - it could happen tomorrow but it’s not a common occurrence - admittedly as a retired officer of the ADF, I’m probably less likely to be viewed with suspicion than most.
And, yes, a large number of firearms were handed in under the buyback in the late 1990s in exchange for fair market value in most cases. But more weapons have been purchased since so firearms ownership is at its highest level ever.
We may face more restrictions as a result of this incident unfortunately - I certainly expect at the very least for them to be more calls to restrict in the Northern Territory which historically has had among the lowest level of control (largely because isolation and the presence of predators like crocodiles actually makes a better case for firearms ownership for certain types of protection than is typical in more urbanised areas).
Short version - universal registration and universal licencing. And you need specific licences that get harder to get as weapons get more - or at least are perceived as more - powerful. There’s also a lot of niggling little restrictions on things like calibre and magazine sizes that often make very little sense.
Long article, but missed the name of the perpetrator....
It won’t be released until he’s appeared in court and maybe not even then. That’s routine in Australia. It’s very rare for a suspect to be identified in the media until they’ve been before a magistrate.
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