SYDNEY lawyer and former prosecutor and high ranking police adviser, Richard McDonald (McDonald Law), will on Monday attempt to get politicians to see reason instead of the knee-jerk legislative reactions that further erode the lawful rights of firearm owners.
“The question currently being asked, including by the Prime Minister today and the Minns Government, is, ‘Why would anyone living in the Sydney suburbs own more than one firearm, let alone six firearms? What is the possible justification?'” says Mr McDonald.
“This is purely speculative nonsense, and has overridden and politicised the real issue around a purely negligent immigration system and dysfunctional policy that recklessly exposes the risk to public safety.
“The short answer about owning multiple firearms is that postcode and firearm count are not the legal test.”
McDonald points out that under the NSW firearms framework and the objects of the Firearms Act 1996, the question is whether the person is fit and proper, whether they have a recognised genuine reason for the licence category, and whether they comply with their obligations, especially safe storage.
“If those criteria are met, the fact that someone lives in the suburbs is neither suspicious nor decisive of their risk to the public,” he says.
“I have said previously that governments can pass laws. Courts can punish after the fact. Police can respond when something has already gone wrong.
“None of that stops a crime in the moment it occurs. None of it stands between you and danger when the seconds matter. None of it guarantees protection when help is minutes away or never comes at all.
“The fact that a lawful firearm owner did what he did on Sunday at Bondi, no legislation could have prevented, even a total ban could not have prevented what happened. Because criminals find a way!
“In my over two decades as a police officer, police prosecutor, and adviser to the State Crime Command and the Commissioner of Police, and now as a firearms advocate for lawful firearms owners, I know this, and so do my former colleagues.
“Laws and buy-back schemes, and personal firearm quotas for lawful gun owners do not matter to criminals intent on doing harm in our community. They ignore them, they don’t give a stuff, especially if they are ideology-bound to create harm.
“It is well settled that prohibition does not work. It continues to not work.”
McDonald listed some ordinary, lawful reasons for a metropolitan licence holder having multiple firearms.
Sport and target shooting: Different disciplines and competition classes often require different firearms. One setup rarely covers everything. Rimfire and centrefire. Different actions. Different calibres. Different sights or optics. Different range purposes.
Hunting or pest control on lawful property: Many people who live in Sydney travel to rural properties, own rural properties, or have approval and permissions to shoot on rural land. Where you live does not limit where you can lawfully use a firearm.
Practicality and maintenance: Firearms need servicing and repair. Competition calendars do not stop because your only firearm is in the workshop. A spare or alternative setup can be entirely sensible.
The Argument and the Assumption: An assumption like, “Why would anyone want six?” is not evidence of intent to commit wrongdoing in the future. It is an opinion, speculative at best. Decisions should be based on appropriate, rational criteria and actual evidence about the person and their compliance.
“Again, legislation is a blunt instrument and cannot account for all contingencies, and those with criminal intent in their hearts do not care how restrictive laws are; they break them as most road users go through a red light.”
McDonald advises firearm owners who are questioned about how many firearms they have to use an “evidence-based and straightforward approach”.
He says owners should list each firearm, link it to its lawful purpose, provide proof of club membership and attendance, competition entries, permissions where relevant, and clear evidence of compliant storage.
“On Monday, I will be going to the NSW Parliament to fight for lawful gun owners and try to stem the ignorance around lawful gun ownership. Facts over feelings and evidence over assumptions,” he said.
SHOOTERS AND HUNTERS ARENT GOING TO BE SCAPE GOATED BY CHRIS MINNS AND THE NSW GOVENRMENT FOR FAILURES OF INTELLIGENCE.
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The part I like best about the proposed legislation is the part that says the right to APPEAL any licensing decision will be removed. So when a kommissar acts erroneously or unreasonably our natural justice principles fly out the window.
It’s about time we cleared up who is the boss in NSW and the rest of Australia. The ‘public servant’ concept of yesteryear is now clearly nonsense and needs a bit of updating. It’s the public themselves today that ARE the servants. We’ve been flipped and now we’re getting flicked too. Too few dare call it as it is.
I just watched an interview on skynews with the Governor General where she said – with a straight face – that she’s had lots of emails and calls to sack the Prime Minister over his failures at Bondi but she doesn’t have the power to do that.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G3KldDK0MhI
She’s either is so clueless that she doesn’t know that the constitution gives her the power to dissolve parliament and her reserve powers also give her the power to sack the Prime Minister or she’s lying through her teeth. Either way she’s not fit for the office. It’s the highest office in the land and demands scrupulous integrity of the highest order.
In fact the powers of the GG to do just that were exercised by the GG at the time in 1975 Sir John Kur who sacked Whitlam as he was destroying the country with his communist agenda. Not unlike the Whitlam 2.0 that we have now.
What is astounding is that the media has let her get away with it. Why aren’t they calling her out on that?
It’s a very simple thing to fact check that misinformation on Google and absolutely anybody can see for themselves within seconds that its completely untrue…. Just like I did.
It’s a huge huge story and an unforgivable blunder that has big implications for the country.
The media should be all over this. Why are they giving her a pass?
If the highest office in the land doesn’t know her own powers to dismiss a failed govt and PM when needed to protect us all then who can the people rely on to have their backs.
It’s a terrible state of affairs and it’s a real shame.
The fish rots from the head.
We’re doomed!
Please, God help us!!!
That’s the real purpose of both the (real)false-flag attacks and the (hoaxed)false flag attacks.
Pull off a bunch of fake ones to get the preventive measures in place to prevent the real thing from happening later, when it becomes obvious to more and more people who and what these political scum and their handlers are really about.
Hehe…but we’re not supposed to think and talk like that. No-no..we’re supposed to pretend the “government” is mostly a legitimate “authority”…
If you know what they’ve been doing for over a century that’s a laughable idea.
“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.” Moses Zedong
Everything else is just playing footsie with the criminal scum ruling over you.
WHO NEEDS THEIR PERMISSION? For anything? But slaves.
A brainwashed and mind-controlled population is a wonderful thing in a “democracy”…isn’t it?
The brainwashed and mind-controlled are essentially remote-controlled, they don’t have a will of their own. I’m not a part of their “we the people”…
Like hell these brainwashed and mind-controlled “majority” own me, or will dictate what I can or cannot do.
Better to be an outlaw within a criminally ruled country than an obedient slave.
They want to be able to round up anyone anywhere with no risk to themselves or their agents, they want the god-like power to act with impunity without fear of retribution.
They want to head off any possible vigilante operations or pogroms.
ZOG WORLD INC.
JewMatrix: World of Digression and Degeneration.
All this political claptrap about 21 people being executed by rifleman or riflemen and yet not a murmur from the main stream media about the thousands of innocents murdered or having bad health outcomes because of political and pharmaceutical murderers over the last five years. When are the courts and hangmen about to take action on REAL, INTENDED, that is PLANNED, murder here in Australia. Remember all those politicians State and Federal who resigned from their leadership positions without one of them losing an election. Where are they hiding? Of course there are also those current leaders who have been in power while the Covid-19 “vaccine” is still in use when there has never been a Covid-19 virus? Crime and fraud one on top of the other.
Peter Senior said – “… Only a completely new government will return Australia to common sense…”
… which ironically is an opinion devoid of common sense. And so very tragically for Australians, a doggedly comfortable and convenient delusion which apparently the bulk of the Australian population STILL clings to after DECADES of crankng the same old handle with no discernible effect.
What do they say about doing the same thing over and over and over and expecting a different result?
Fact is they don’t work for us and they don’t answer to us, and we’re neither shareholders nor “stakeholders” in the foreign-registered and foreign-owned COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CORPORATION which has had Australia in the grip of a democidally hostile occupation for generations now.
And we have no say in the occupants and policies of our sold-out paid-off Treasonous fake corporate “government” never mind their literal armies of gun-toting shit-for-brains Granny-bashing child-molesting pig-raping mass-murdering hired mercenary ENFORCERS entrenched thoughout every Australian state and territory.
Anyone who STILL insists that we do, who STILL ardently believes in the power of their “vote”, is simply adorably naive, like a five-year-old going to sleep all snug, safe and cosy in the firm expectation of being visited by Santa or the Tooth Fairy.
Looks like we’ve still got another five or six years before all those metaphorical five-year-olds grow into the realisation that we have neither Santa nor the Tooth Fairy, all we have are hordes of utterly remorseless psychopathic incurably opportunistic Luciferian Secret Society traitors Hell-bent on exterminating us and ransacking our country for the pleasure of their blood-drenched foreign owners and Masters.
Remember what happened to Libya when they disarmed.
What will happen to the Palestinians if Hamas disarms?
What will happen to the Russians if they agree to a ceasefire – without a surrender? Well, exactly what happened last time. The German government used it to rearm Ukraine. Ex Chancellor Merkel now tells all.
Sadly most don’t know history or can’t think laterally. They say they don’t watch the news but spew out the same rhetoric.
It was interesting to hear Malcolm Turnbull tell Bibi to stop meddling in Australia’s affairs. Took me by surprise.
If you think this will be the last ‘situation’, think again. They will continue until desired aim is reached. Brace yourselves and remain wise.
The links to the petition are not working!
Satanite Army, ie Pagan Pollies and Pagan Beauracrats ramping it up, for their UNs 2030 Great Reset. Australian States should have their own Bill of Rights, including, Right to Free Speech, Right to Bear Arms, Right not to be under Bibi Satanyahoos, demonic influence, ie our PP and PBs. 16,000 Blue Machines in NSW. With 8x Million Civilian Populations, time to turn the table over. Epheshians 5.11 relates. ps do not hand in your W….ns, Time to take out the Satanite Army, off to the Stockade they go..
What a shemozzle the UnaParty is creating, and includes economic stagnation, a housing crisis, record-breaking debt, politics fatigue, propaganda going exponential, institutional collapse and complete loss of direction.
But not to worry because Canberra lobbyists are delivering kickbacks and post-political careers faster than ever before, with PMs lasting on average 3 years.
Now we are being set up for Friedburger to take over from lame duck Elbow, who will crash and burn any day now, and we’ll have Smiley Jim the clueless wonder-boy until it’s Friedburger’s turn. We will go full Zio, watch out muslims, grr grr.
Michelle Rowland of the MaD bill is Attorney General and will oversee the new laws as soon as she has paid back her misappropriated ( generally used as a polite word for stolen ) travel allowance funds, which aren’t allowed to be published so we assume 90% of the full amount, equalling around $20k for a “week-long” trip from NSW to Perth. Punish me harder Michelle.
I wonder what new fresh Hell the govt has for us down the line that they need everyone disarmed for.
A new plandemic where they want to finish us off with some new deadly vax?
Or put those who refuse in gulags?
Maybe they’re just scared of all those angry mobs who have worked out what the govt did to us all with their Covid scam that abused the entire population, traumatised mist of us and blackmailed us all into taking a deadly untested gene altering jab that has killed thousands and permanently injured thousands more… then demanded we get boosters whilst giving themselves exemptions.
Clearly this is yet another false flag.
Got Chris Minns MO all over it.
Just like the spurious caravan with unexploded damp explosives that was supposedly parked near a synagogue with a list of Jewish names on it.
That exaggerated threat turned out to be a big dud but that didn’t stop Minns from rushing through OTT hate speech legislation on the back of it.
Once the hoax was exposed he refused to do an inquiry and kept the legislation anyway.
This is just a bigger version of that.
Did the government ever consider that they have been the biggest perpetrators of hate speech and incitement to violence and actual violence.
Or were they missing in action when they Imposed the Covid nightmare on us all.
At last, someone with the knowledge and no how is tackling our dictatorship. From the bottom of my heart I wish him well.
Sure the “six guns” argument is spurious, as only three guns were used in the attack. Are the governments planning to reduce the number of firearms that can be owned to two? Best wishes, Mr McDonald.
Lol at participating in parliamentary hearings. The Jew masters have made up their mind: Aussie bovine will be disarmed.
And tbh it is a good thing. Australians have proven themselves to be spineless cattle since the false flag of Port Arthur, the vaccine lockdowns, the renewable energy bs, and now this latest false flag. The only people who had the balls (Trains, Dezi) are dead.
More shabbos goyim who die, the worse things get, the more chance for Sir Rope and Mrs Lamppost to occur.
Yet another false flag driven by the Satanists both overseas and in Australia. This one seems to have as much authenticity as Port Arthur and Sandy Hook. Only a completely new government will return Australia to common sense, but that requires enough candidates to extract themselves from the cognitive dissonance that most suffer from, including knowing the full history of Jews and Zionists.
THE 2030 AGENDA CREATED BY THE UN WANTS ALL FIREARMS OUT OF PRIVATE OWNERSHIP SO EVERY TIME THERE IS A HINT OF MISUSE OF FIREARMS THE UN’S POLITICIAN MINIONS CREATE AN EXCUSE TO BAN MORE FIREARMS.
LEGAL GUN OWNERS, WHAT EVER THE OUTCOME, DON’T COMPLY
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