there seems to be a lot of misinformation about this so I am putting up what 365 precision train put on there faceache page so we all can see what they say
myself I have donated because I believe this should have its chance in court to be decided instead of the media
I also believe that what he says is possible
"The Anti Shooting Agenda from our Government has finally taken its toll.
365 can no longer operate on our range.
The NSW FAR has imposed so many restrictions on the range we operate from that it has ended our business from operating in NSW, so many bulls**t rules that seem to be personal opinion and not legislation.
We can no longer shoot steel plates even though we and the range has been approved to shoot steel for many years, this is coming from the range inspector that previously told me that every rifle that he has seen our students use are “sniper rifles” and that no civilian should be aloud to own them.
The range trace approval has always been max cal 8mm, Max Muzzle velocity 4000fps and max energy 4400 ft,lbs. Now they are saying we cannot shoot anything bigger then .308 ? Making up legislation on the spot.
Even though we were shooting steel and approved to do so we could not use steel posts to hold the targets, basically the range has been restricted to barley shooting paper.
The Range is situated on a family farm, the range owners are also farmers. The range was a small side business to try and help them through rough times, the range fees from 365 and two local clubs is what helped these guys out in these terrible times... the FAR pretty much laughed in the faces of us all and the farmers who are struggling so badly they cannot feed stock. This is how they treat them.
I personally believe that after many attempts from the FAR of shutting down 365 that they were never successful of doing that they have resorted to attacking the range in a way to do so.
I believe if this was taken to court half or most of these so called rules would not stand up, unfortunately the range owners cannot afford to fight them, I also spent a lot of money previously going through their hoops to stay open.
Currently they have succeeded as shutting us down in NSW, what I don’t understand is I see pictures from other ranges not to far away doing things that we have been told cannot be done.
I know first hand the FAR does not like shooters, does not like long range shooting and does not like anyone learning how to shoot long range. As far as I’m concerned they want to shutdown everyone, next thing for shooters is big cals are going to be banned. Then smaller cals, bolt action rifles will be banned then we will be left with nothing.
As a Aussie veteran I invested a good chunk of my money I earn’t on deployment into starting this business, money that I new was going to be long term in being profitable. The NSW Firearms Registry has destroyed that and I have just lost all of it, from the first year we started we became an easy target for them. They do not support veterans in any way at all and any comment thrown at them, a bulls**t response “public safety” comes up.
Thanks NSW Firearms Registry, not only did you just rob a Veteran of his savings and caused huge financial hardship for myself and my family but you also just destroyed any financial help for the poor farmers trying to survive in this drought.
Where we go one, we go all."
“If you do not read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read the newspapers you are misinformed”. Mark Twain