sungazer wrote:Reading his FB page makes for a very sad story. It reads to me as he was in corrections and became depressed left his job or was put off for that reason which then sparked the revocation of his license. From that point on is unclear but it appears he was able to then get firearms again. The rest is incidental Knives and books are legal they are used by police and media to make something look bigger than it actually is. Same for the ammo amounts.
If BR were ever to fall short of the law the beat up article would read like he was terrorist number 1.
Yep, and obviously an enthusiastic shooter and hunter whose depression would not have improved by having that taken away from him.
As for the knives, do the Police lay out all the kitchenware for the media photos every time they raid somebody's house? They might take all sorts of legal and inoffensive property if they believe it to be evidentiary, but the media and Police are just beating up a non-story. Take all of that rubbish out of it and you have a very depressed bloke with an illegal rifle and some handguns that hasn't done any harm to anybody. Most of his charges are probably for "improperly secured ammunition" and "improper firearm storage" rather than anything criminal.
If the media hadn't started off with the "Sydney man found with 200 guns allegedly preparing for mass shooting" headline the story would've died on the first day.