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| GUNS,RIGHTS,FREEDOM & WHATS HAPPENING >>> ------------------------------------------------------------- Storage of guns to be checked across region BY HALEY SHERIDAN 13/10/2009 9:37:00 PM POLICE will visit licensed gun owners in their local area commands in the coming months to check their firearms are being stored correctly. This is the case for the 5500 licensed gun owners in the Oxley LAC who will be visited by police as part of Operation Margin, following a gun amnesty earlier this ear. Under legislation introduced in 1996, gun owners are required to store their firearms in a lockable steel cabinet. Tamworth Firearms owner John Sleightholme told The Leader gun owners were wilfully complying with the laws. “Firearms need to be stored in a steel cabinet passed by the registry. There are plenty of steel cabinets commercially available,” he said. “Ammunition must be stored in a separate container. “The smaller cabinets are our best sellers and we range up to a 30-gun safe. “Any safe that weighs less than 150kg must be fastened down.” Mr Sleightholme said gun safes ranged in price from $180 to $1750. Barwon LAC Superintendent Bob Barnett said gun owners should be aware of their responsibilities to ensure their weapons were safely stored when not in use. “Licensing police will be attending the home of every licensed firearm owner in Barwon in coming months to inspect every weapon and check the gun safe,” he said. “Officers will be examining all gun safes to ensure they comply with the legislative requirements, particularly in relation to the standard and security of safes. It’s especially important that weapons are stored in such a way as to limit the possibility of loss or theft, so they don’t come into the possession of a person who isn’t authorised to hold them.” The maximum penalty for incorrect storage of a weapon is two years’ jail. NSW Police Force Firearms Registry says all firearm owners must: • Meet or exceed the minimum storage requirements set for each licence category; • Store ammunition in a locked container separately from the firearms; • Ensure firearms are unloaded at all times when stored; and • Meet storage requirements for the temporary storage of all firearms. ============================================================= Take a stand, urge ‘em to give up guns and knives in Brimbank newsCrime13 Oct 09 @ 06:00am by Paula Maud PARENTS, neighbours and workmates are urged to ask the hard questions of sons and mates to encourage them to hand over dangerous weapons for Victoria Police’s October amnesty. Keilor Downs Sen-Sgt Trevor O’Shanassy said the amnesty on weapons was a good chance for parents in particular to talk to their kids about the danger of carrying weapons and ask about any encounters they may have had with people with weapons. “It’s good to know what your kids are up to,” he said. Last year, 2428 weapons - ranging from slingshots, knuckle-dusters, and imitation pistols to samurai swords and pocket knives - were handed in throughout Victoria during the amnesty period, with 22 surrendered in Brimbank. Deputy Commissioner Ken Jones said he wanted Victorians to deliver more this year. “I hope the people of Victoria step up ... and have discussions within their family, their neighbourhoods and community groups and all share the responsibility of suppressing the use of weapons and knives in our community,” he said. Deputy Commissioner Jones said he also hoped the amnesty would raise how dangerous knives were. He said the majority of people carrying weapons for defence had them turned against them. Weapons can be handed in at all police stations, no questions asked. It is recommended guns and ammunition be separated and placed in paper bags. Details: Sunshine 9313 3333, Keilor Downs 9365 3333. =============================================================== Gun owners face stricter regulations Posted: Oct 12, 2009 07:22 PM EDT Reported by: Stacy Daniel The governor signed a new bill into law on Monday, October 12. The move is sparking mixed reaction. The new law requires stores that sell ammunition to keep track of every customer who makes a purchase. The idea is that local law enforcement can use the records to find illegal guns. It also requires store owners to keep hand gun ammunition behind the counter or in some other "safe" place. A thumbprint will be taken from anyone purchasing bullets and customers will also have to provide a valid California driver's license. Most gun owners will tell you the right to bear arms is the most important of all of our inalienable rights. They say the second amendment helps enforce the other amendments. Gun Owner, Nelson Dymond says, "It's another chip at getting guns out of people's hands. If you don't have ammunition what good is the gun." Dymond is disappointed the governor signed the bill. He says all it does is make things harder for law abiding citizens. "The more law we put in the more it favors the gang banger because you and I don't have a gun to protect ourselves. We don't have ammunition to protect ourselves and therefore, the gang bangers is a nice brave little gut out there because he knows nobody can shoot back at him", says Dymond. Not everyone thinks along those same lines. Mark Buchman supports gun control. He says, "I just can't believe that anyone, anyone would be opposed to it." Buchman believes any law that places tougher regulations on gun owners is a good thing. He says as long as you're a law abiding citizen you've got nothing to worry about. Adds, "I give my thumb print when I sometimes have to cash a check at a bank. Oh my God. Is that an imposition on my freedom? There's a speed limit on the freeway. Is that an imposition on my rights? No. It's part of living in a society." Two very different view points. But, both sides say they want what's best for the people of California and that's to keep them safe. Exactly how to do that is still up for debate. Los Angeles and Sacramento have similar ordinances already in place Ammo shortage, high prices frustrate gun owners Watch Video Ammo shortage, high prices frustrate gun owners - by Julie Tam, FOX 41 News Gun owners are having a hard time finding ammunition for their firearms. One year after gun owners started fearing their rights would be limited by a new president, bullet makers still cannot keep up with the demand for ammo. Not only have gun owners been loading up their guns, they've been loading up on bullets, ever since it appeared Barack Obama would be elected president. "A lot of the shortage has been caused by gun owners ourselves in an effort to hoard ammunition," gun owner Chris Nelson said. "And it's a lot of fear that the administration would bring tougher gun laws, stricter ammunition laws." Nelson cannot find the ammunition he needs. Shooting ranges, gun dealers, and bullet manufacturers nationwide say they have never seen such ammo shortages. "We've since talked to two of the major ammunition manufacturers -- the Winchester and Remington. They've all increased their production to three shifts. But as they say, adding a 33-percent increase in manufacturing can't keep up with the 400-percent increase in demand," Win Underwood, co-owner of Bluegrass Indoor Range, said. Before November 2008, a box of 50 WOLF-brand 9-mm cartridges would have cost $9 or less. Today it costs $23. "We got quite a few guns here now," Underwood said. "But within a week after the election, we had no guns and couldn't get them." Once ammunition became hard to come by, many stores, including Bluegrass Indoor Range, started limiting the number of boxes customers could buy. So gun owners started helping each other. "If I know somebody's looking for something, I'll call them or I'll pick it up, and then the camaraderie in it is I would sell them for the same price I paid for it rather than making a profit, which has been seen at a lot of gun shows," Nelson said. But some calibers are not available at all. "It's very frustrating, as a dealer, not to be able to provide your customers with the product that they want," Underwood said. If you can believe it, ammo prices actually have come down since going sky-high several months ago, but prices are still much higher than they were before the nationwide rush for bullets. Oct 8, 2009 6:08 am US/Eastern NRA Hits Back At Bloomberg Over Gun Stance Ultra Nasty Political Ad Hammers NYC Mayor, Italian-Americans In Ongoing Battle Over Gun Sales In Virginia Reporting Hazel Sanchez NEW YORK (CBS) ? numSlides of totalImages Related Slideshows Celebs Who Lean To The Right World's Most Useless Facts 2009 Celebrity Deaths, Jan.-June 2009 Celebrity Deaths, July-Dec. Celebrities In Playboy Openly Gay Celebrities Best Picture Blunders The Incredible Megan Fox -- Then & Now Jennifer Aniston Jessica Simpson: Then & Now Mayor Michael Bloomberg is under fire in a new ad released by the National Rifle Association. But members of the Italian-American community say they feel targeted, too. One part of the ad goes like this: "Our New York Mayor Bloomberg came down here to take away some of your Virginia gun rights. You see, the mayor thinks you guys are responsible for our New York crime problem." The NRA is taking shots at Mayor Bloomberg in a new ad airing in Virginia. In it, an apparent Big Apple "wise guy" strongly "suggests" voters not elect gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell, a gun rights activist. "I want you to do it for New York. If you know what's good for you," the ad says. "He's Bob McDonnell, defending Virginia's freedom from whoever tries to take it away. Even if it's the New York mayor and his cronies." Bloomberg has been trying to shut down Virginia gun dealers who've been selling guns illegally, and released his own ad in April slamming McDonnell for not supporting tougher gun laws. As for this campaign? "Haven't seen the ad. Heard about it. But I'll leave Virginia politics to the Virginians and worry about the politics here," Bloomberg said on Wednesday. Some people say Bloomberg is not the only New Yorker being blasted in the ad. CBS 2 HD showed it to locals on Arthur Avenue to get their opinion. "I don't know if I'm more insulted as a New Yorker or as an Italian American," one person said. "It's just putting a stereotype basically on Italians and what's in New York," added another. Italian pride is prominent on the stretch of Arthur Avenue in the Bronx where Italian bakery owner Ermano Marrone found the ad offensive. "They don't know anything about New Yorkers. We don't have the problems. They have the problems," Marrone said. John Calvelli from the National Italian American Foundation watched the ad in disgust. "I think the most offensive part is that I have to watch this is in 2009. It's wrong against Italian Americans. It's wrong against any community. And we all should say enough," Calvelli said. But the ad is still airing and reportedly is just the beginning of an NRA $500,000 campaign. The ad is relatively timely. Earlier Wednesday Bloomberg announced the results of an undercover investigation of illegal gun sales at gun shows across the country. |