My "past" semi autos

[Die Judicii]

Recently I finished a marathon of computer work, emails etc.
As I relaxed and leaned back in the chair, I looked up at the wall and gazed at the framed pictures of a particular brand of yester years semi autos.
There are seven pics all up,, of the seven different models that used to be readily available to all firearms owners, (even via direct Australia Post)

I owned 3 of them,, with one in particular being my very first rifle (at the tender age of 14yo)

Oh my,,,,, how times have changed.
Even at that young age,, owning and using a semi auto didn't turn me into a "criminal" that all these current politicians and shrinks seem to think.

[deye243]

Yep I had my 1022 stolen i had since I was 15 and a Remington 742 woodsmaster 3006 stolen as well

[alexjones]

Queensland law allows Australia Post to send guns to your home.

I always get them sent to my house so I don't have to pick them up.

Just your normal postman dropping off your mail and your guns to your front door.

[Wapiti]

My first centrefire was a Garand. Springfield Armoury, 1951. I was 15, and a first-year apprentice Boilermaker.
At 12, I looked after a neighbours house over Easter and he gifted me a Stirling Model 20, a 22LR semi-auto, with my dad's blessing.
For my 21st, my oldies gave me a refurbished ex-Israeli M14.

After that, I had a few M14's, one had actually escaped Peter Cue's removal and grinding off of the auto-sear, what fun that was. I still can't work out how that one got through. That one I sold on the "Qld Trading Post" paper in 1996, just before the "stealback" ended. For the buyback price, to a bloke who was not going to hand it in.
At the time, I was too scared to disobey the new laws.
Same thing happened to my 1984 SLR, 10/22, Colt AR15 Hbar that I used in IPSC rifle comps, and a mint FN49 30-06.

My H&R M14 truly was an MOA rifle, and I cut down a 20-shot mag to a flush fit 10-shotter for hunting. Nothing escaped me, and I could take out crows at ranges that a good shot wth a 22-250 could, as well as a mob of pigs.

None of them were handed in, all were sold legally just before the stealback ended. I wonder if they are still out there.
And today, to tell the truth, I wish I hadn't gotten rid of them and it is one of my life's greatest regrets.

Obviously, at the time, I was a homicidal maniac and could have snapped at any time and massacred my whole neighbourhood. But I didn't.
Because I wasn't a religious imported neanderthal, or a mentally ill drug addict let out with a smack on the wrist each time I pleased a judge in his chambers prior to a court hearing.

[alexjones]

My dad was plastering at the time and he was acquiring gyprock from his boss to sell to people.

Was a crazy time before guns were registered.

[alexjones]

You can understand why Americans have gun rights in their founding documents. They had just fought a war against the most powerful military in the world and they realised that the people must be well armed and well trained. That is as true then as it is now.

The old use of the word “well regulated militia”in that context means more of well trained / well prepared. Not government regulation.

[alexjones]

There is a correlation between gun laws and society getting gayer.

The more gun laws that have been implemented the gayer this federation has gotten. You all know it to be true.

Queensland gun licnces came in force in 1990 and since than things have gotten gayer at a quicker rate.

Maths equation
more gun laws = gayer society

[Wapiti]

Why not just punish those who use ANYTHING to be evil to others adequately?
Doesn't matter what it is.
Remember what punishment was all about, deterrent?

How come, in my case, fear of punishment and a sense of what's morally right, deters ME from hurting others and trying to be a good person in society?
I'm certain you're all the same.
Therefore, those who don't should be made an example of, to deter those who'd take the wrong path.
Then, those who still do it, should be removed from it, so that the rest of us stay free and contribute to a better place. And so on it goes.

[Die Judicii]

Yep I had my 1022 stolen i had since I was 15 and a Remington 742 woodsmaster 3006 stolen as well

From what your saying Mate, you had an incredibly “unlucky” string of events. Maybe your security should have been upgraded ?

[wanneroo]

You can understand why Americans have gun rights in their founding documents. They had just fought a war against the most powerful military in the world and they realised that the people must be well armed and well trained. That is as true then as it is now.

The old use of the word “well regulated militia”in that context means more of well trained / well prepared. Not government regulation.

It's basic national survival and how serious you take your country as citizens.

In the USA, the civilian market is about 10 years ahead of the military with firearms tech and development of better parts, better barrels, better ammo, better optics, you name it. In the event of wartime we already have an extensive manufacturing industry ready to go.

I was reading an article the other day about the Brits looking to replace their junky old SA80 battle rifles. The last rifles were made in 1994. H&K upgraded them at some point to try to correct the problems they had, but now the British have to source spare parts from the USA. And they want to buy a new rifle for the troops but no longer have any domestic manufacturers to make a modern battle rifle.

Imagine that folks, the once British Empire can no longer make a rifle.....

The anti gun nuts so suppressed the firearms industry and the shooting sports that there is no one left to make guns.

[deye243]

Yep I had my 1022 stolen i had since I was 15 and a Remington 742 woodsmaster 3006 stolen as well

From what your saying Mate, you had an incredibly “unlucky” string of events. Maybe your security should have been upgraded ?

Pretty hard to have enough security to keep the government out when you're threatened with 12 months jail minimum you tend to do as you're told as we have no rights in this department .
it's generally a problem of any society that has never had to fight for its freedom and that is unfortunately Australia in a nut shell

[Die Judicii]

Yep I had my 1022 stolen i had since I was 15 and a Remington 742 woodsmaster 3006 stolen as well

From what your saying Mate, you had an incredibly “unlucky” string of events. Maybe your security should have been upgraded ?

Pretty hard to have enough security to keep the government out when you're threatened with 12 months jail minimum you tend to do as you're told as we have no rights in this department .
it's generally a problem of any society that has never had to fight for its freedom and that is unfortunately Australia in a nut shell

Nuff said Mate,
I erred on the side of caution, and answered as if you mean't "stolen", in the other sense.

[joe blow]

At the time, I was too scared to disobey the new laws.
Same thing happened to my 1984 SLR, 10/22, Colt AR15 Hbar that I used in IPSC rifle comps, and a mint FN49 30-06.

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that would have been a great collection. I sold sold my 10/22 to the buyback and wish I didn't. And got to play around with a Mini 14 a few times. Just mechanically great fun, fascinating to use I reckon. Thinking back that was peak times for the Queensland gun owner.

[deye243]

Yep I had my 1022 stolen i had since I was 15 and a Remington 742 woodsmaster 3006 stolen as well

From what your saying Mate, you had an incredibly “unlucky” string of events. Maybe your security should have been upgraded ?

Pretty hard to have enough security to keep the government out when you're threatened with 12 months jail minimum you tend to do as you're told as we have no rights in this department .
it's generally a problem of any society that has never had to fight for its freedom and that is unfortunately Australia in a nut shell

Nuff said Mate,
I erred on the side of caution, and answered as if you mean't "stolen", in the other sense.

Yeah they like to call it a buy back but the government didn't own them in the 1st place and in my books if they force you to except money for something you dont want to sell it's theft .

[alexjones]

Hand in your private property or go to jail.

Thats not theft thats Extortion! In other words it is tyranny!

I have been ashamed to be Australian since 1996. We really are a country of limp wrists.

[bigrich]

Hand in your private property or go to jail.

Thats not theft thats Extortion! In other words it is tyranny!

I have been ashamed to be Australian since 1996. We really are a country of limp wrists.

being ashamed to be australian ? bit disheartening mate . what course of action would you have taken in "96 ?

[Wapiti]

What should have happened, was that ALL gun owners said NO!
Come and get us all, and nothing would, or could, have happened except a rethink.

Yeah, yeah, you' can't disobey a law, even if it's criminal. That is people in a nutshell now. And them they fill reams of bandwidth online whit hand wringing and whinging.
As Alex has said, we really are a country of limp wrists.
What's been stopping attacks to the 2nd Amendment, and any changes to it in the US from the socialists there? We all know what.
Then in some states, where people can be segregated into state lines and burrows, attacks have been successful but in the main, more states have gotten more rights in the concealed carry and castle law sense.

Yes, yes, Aus isn't America with a 2nd Amendment, but if they had citizens there with Australian voters mindset, of talking and explaining their way out of a fight which NEVER achieves anything, the 2nd Amendment would have been re-written by now. And for those who say bullsh*t, there's sand in your ears.

That's all an excuse to hide from a fight.