Comment on Perth mother and daughter shot dead by friend's ex-partner in double murder-suicide
wildwhitehorses@aussie.zone 5 months agoSo how do you get a gun in Perth?
Comment on Perth mother and daughter shot dead by friend's ex-partner in double murder-suicide
wildwhitehorses@aussie.zone 5 months agoSo how do you get a gun in Perth?
Nath@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I don’t know in truth. From friends I know who shoot, they need to keep their hand guns at the range. They can’t take them home. Farmers can have rifles, but I’m having a hard time picturing a rifle being the weapon in this story.
RedCarCastle@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Could of very easily been a rifle, this guy was a licensed owner, at best he kept everything locked up, ammo stored separately, keys hidden, at worst could of kept a loaded rifle next to his front door.
Nath@aussie.zone 5 months ago
It was confirmed this afternoon that he had two handguns on the scene and was licensed as a collector for them.
I am personally surprised, I didn’t know that was possible. Meanwhile, there’s a petition going around by gun owners saying they don’t want tighter gun laws in the wake of this. I wonder whether there is an opposing petition saying we don’t think it should be legal to have a handgun at home?
RedCarCastle@aussie.zone 5 months ago
He was going out to kill, if he didn’t have access to a gun he would of used something else. I’m a gun ower in NSW and I’ve got my own opinions around gun laws, that being said, I think there should be something done to try and stop these terrible things from happening. Maybe yearly psychological assessments or something, but tightening gun restrictions only effect law abiding gun owners, because criminals are just gonna break the law anyway.