Police are investigating the hacking of a gun club database that may have exposed where more than 1500 semi-automatic handguns are stored.
The private details of 540 members from the Port Melbourne club, including the types of weapons they owned, is believed to have been compromised this month
Please tell me that this article is grossly inaccurate, and that detailed records of who owns what firearms are not stored in the database. What possible good reason could a club have for maintaining their own database (which isn't legally required) to store this much detailed information on it's members.
Even if police and government are in denial of the risks involved surely gun clubs have better wisdom. As such I'm hoping that this is just a blown out of proportion article.