Archive for July, 2000

WILL POLICE MINISTER ACT RESPONSIBLY ON GUN TRAINING?

Soon the Australasian Police Ministers Council will meet to decide on the details of a new Shooters Licence. The present Licence regime is totally inadequate and fails to filter out careless, macho applicants -- or to discipline would-be shooters into strict and competent behaviour with guns. It is a product of the 1970's, improved in minor ways in the 1980's and 1990's. It remains the weakest link in gun laws throughout all Australian jurusdictions. We know that learning gives knowledge a...