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I like the idea of a case by case assessment. I feel like they should have already been doing this in the background and questioning people with sus armouries.

But I strongly disagree with the removal of the class system. I know it will get abused and some yahoo will successfully argue they need a semi auto rifle for some stupid reason and get it without having to go through the current class C license requirements.

Our class system is very effective and shouldn't be watered down because of this.

Edit: basically, in the list of tools, keep the classes, they are very good but might need some updating to put more in class C.

Only with safety training and a valid reason for fun activities!

It is true that after he was disarmed he went and got another gun. The gun number argument feels like an ineffective bandaid though.

Is the collector with 20+ break action shotguns that are all over 60 years old and enjoys showing them off at the trap range is a worry, almost certainly not.

What about some random guy with two very similar straight pull shotguns that can easily be modified to a higher capacity mag. And who just put in an application for their 3rd and 4th very similar guns (within say a hypothetical 4 gun limit).

I would hope that the second person gets a much closer look over than the first. This is where an electronic national register and the resources to have closer individual scrutiny would be far more effective.

There is some truth to this though the author is leaning pretty heavily one way.

To be a member of a sporting club I need to be a paid SSAA (Sports Shooting Association Australia) member. And the SSAA lobbies for changes in gun restrictions that I fundamentally disagree with.

This is one of the main reasons I quit my membership and went rec hunting only when I renewed my license.

I would like to see some reform from this.

I would very much like to see the national electronic register implanted fast and effectively along with nationally consistent laws. The current paper form system here in the ACT feels very outdated and I'm sure that the information transfer is slow and difficult.

I would also like to see them change straight pull action rifles and shotguns to class C. I think there is a good argument for Adler style lever action shotguns to be class C as well. I feel like the legislation has not kept up here and the fire rate of these guns is a bit too high.

I'm not against the citizen only limitation (noting it won't affect me) but I'm not sure if excluding permanent residents will have any significant impact.

In terms of number limits, I am also unsure if this will have any significant influence. To me, even 1 gun is enough to be very dangerous. You can't really shoot more than one at a time. It's not like explosives where the total amount directly correlates to more dangerous. I would feel bad if I inherited my great great grandfather's still functional shotgun and had to destroy a 120 year old antique because I already had 2 other guns.

Haha. We have plenty of moron politicians. But typically all our legislation is usually written by public servants with expert advice and lawyers, and even they get it wrong sometimes. The politicians direct what they want, but most of them have never written a law. I assumed it worked this way in most places.

All good mate, I mostly just try and stop the spread of misinformation on Aus gun laws. Most people don't know much about them.

The leaver actions are fast. The main difference is that you can leave your finger on the trigger for a pump and are meant to take it off for the leaver action, though you could do it with your non trigger hand. People are also buying left handed bolt action shotguns to get around this, though it's more awkward. All our shotguns have a capacity limit, usually 5 or less. It looks like these guys modified their barrel mags to hold more.

You're not wrong about wasted ammo, reliability and reload speed, but you have to think about the worst case scenarios. Situation: close range, large dense crowd, shooter with an unreasonable amount of ammunition, and best luck in the world with no jams or reliability issues. That's the formula for mass casualties. This is what our laws are effective at protecting against, primarily by limiting the rate of fire.

Can't believe the guts that must have taken. Absolute legend.

Yeah no shit mate. That's why pump shotguns are also under a cat C licence here. The legislators weren't stupid, they basically categorised things on fire rate and public danger.

The Adler lever actions are very questionable in my opinion. They are almost as fast. Though the one I tried would jam all the time. Lever actions like that weren't a common thing in the 90's so it slipped by for a while.

And saying that a bolt action is potentially worse than a semi auto is some full on American bulshit. Sure things can jam and go wrong, but in the worst case situation with aresholes like this firing into a dense crowd where aim doesn't really matter, faster shooting is more casualties.

A cat C license (self loading) is a lot more difficult to get than a cat A,B licence. So far this has worked, no semi auto terrorist attacks since Port Arthur. Thank fuck these guys did not have semi auto weapons.

I honestly wouldn't have much issue with them removing the cat C licence, effectively banning semi auto outside of military use. But it certainly has some legitimate use cases in feral animal control.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07209

I can't stand these popular science articles that just cherry pick phrases from a paper. tl;dr it's a very promising result but more observation of other galaxies or other mass consistent observations is needed before we should believe this.

However, the signal from the MW halo alone does not constitute the definitive proof of dark matter annihilation. Detection of annihilation signals from other objects or regions with consistent WIMP parameters will be crucial for the final confirmation. Gamma-ray observations of dwarf galaxies in the MW halo are fascinating from this perspective.

I would say the most exciting part is this gives us a mass range to optimise the search with earth based detectors. Start looking for 0.5-0.8 TeV masses.

It was in the first 5 min that he mentioned it and it's a clear example of available data that clearly shows a cancer correlation with radiation. I don't see how this could be a case of people handling it well.

Let's be very clear. I'm not saying this LNT wrong and I'm also not saying it's right, but that we don't have enough info to know one way or the other what the effects are in the low dose case. It's an area of active research where it is almost impossible to get good data.