Rod, at 14:07 on May 13 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Quite so.  I strongly suspect that the only people who surrender guns
BG> will be the very ones who are probably sane (or decent) enough to own them.

RS> More likely those have ALREADY got them on a list as part of an earlier
RS> set of gun laws. It will be interesting to see the relative per head
RS> rates of turned in 22 semi autos in states where they aint listed at all.

When I had my NSW Shooters' Licence back around 1972ish, it was issued on a
personal basis, with no requirement to list the weapons owned, exactly the
same as with my current Qld Police Weapons License.  Did that change in NSW
since I left there?

RS> Yeah, its the main danger with the semi auto 22s, most who have them
RS> will think the law is stark staring bonkers, and they are dead right.

Couldn't agree more.

RS> I bet they ignore it in droves when they arent already listed as
RS> having it and there is no ammo method of getting found out either.

Yep.

RS> Typical loony stuff that only utterly fuckwit politicians could produce.

Had a local gun-shop owner on the news last night, and he reckons that he's
sold more self-loading rifles in the last week, than he'd sold in the
entire previous year.  Funny that.  :)

Regards, Bill

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