Owen Guns Bulletin Gun Law Alert August 2015 Edition 108
Welcome to the One Hundred and Eighth Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin. This edition is a little early as we needed to put out a GUN LAW ALERT. To encourage every firearm owner to mobilise their friends and family and visit, email, phone, write, (Do all four if possible) your local MP’s.
We all need to contact our State, Federal MP ‘s and Senators, we have them on the back foot a little at present, but they are still trying to save ‘face’ saying that they will take the ban off in 12 months. There will be an election before that happens and if we do not get this fixed soon, we will be coping it from all States at the COAG Police Ministers meeting in November.
In the shop I constantly remind shooter, people with a large investment in our shooting environment. Mostly the response is, “Oh I pass it round to all my email list”, or “I share it on facebook”. They look really hurt, when I tell them, “that’s not enough”, or “That’s next door to doing nothing”. You have to contact your local MP, State and Federal and express your disgust with Gun Laws and the Lever Action Ban.
I know I lose a few friends over this, but now we have the growing numbers of shooters we are going to be no better off, unless we can make our elected representatives very very nervous about re-election. 600,000 shooters in Queensland and at least a million in Australia can now make that difference.
Why do our firearm owner friends want to keep their heads in the sand?
The Government takes our freedoms, our rights and instead grants a Shooters licence. So our friends don’t want to protest in case they get a bad mark against their names. They suffer the impositions, the inconvenience and all the charges which are really fines, for not doing anything wrong, but being a firearm owner. Those who do shout from the roof tops are called extremists, radicals, red necks. (I wear those insults like badges of honour) Governments next ploy is to isolate the most vocal sections of the shooters, (as in the past semi -Auto or Pistol shooters) and make friends with shotgun shooters, or other less affected groups and meet with them, with false smiles (like the ‘Big Bad Wolf” in Little Red Riding Hood) ready to devour those groups up in their next Anti Gun campaign. They divide the shooting organisation against one another by ‘throwing a bone’ of consolation. (Like forced membership) As long as they have one group that does not protest they will use that to say that they have ‘consulted’ and that clubs have mixed opinions. No matter, if those clubs are un affected. They pat us all on the head, like lap dogs and keep us on a tight leash.
Well its time for the chains to break.
We now have the internet, we are not silenced by the media as we were in 1996 and 2003, we can mobilise and spread the word we have facebook. Even if you get a free email address and join in another name like Tikka, or Sportco. You can spread the word on to the pages of the politicians. 5000 people have shared this letter during the last few days, surely some will use some of the ideas and finally write to their local politicians. It does not really hurt. MP’s are there to represent you and get paid good money for doing it. You have to do your part.
A letter in Response to your Local MP.
Ron Owen
President
Firearm Owners Association of Australia.
Address
Owen Guns
24 Mc Mahon Rd
Gympie, 4570.
Queensland.
07 54 825070
To Warren Truss MP
Deputy Prime Minister
Federal Member for Wide Bay
PO Box 283, Maryborough, 4550
Queensland.
Warren is looking a little mizz, not looking forwards to his massive pension.
9th August 2015
Re -Prohibition of Lever Action Shotguns.
Dear Warren
Thank you for your reply to my questions, I noticed you signed it but I strongly suspect that you did not write it, as it is, ill informed, un-reasonable and insults the Firearm owners intelligence. It uses “Yes Minister” type platitudes full of thought-terminating cliché, disguising the reality of ‘just a decision to make it seem like the government is doing something,’ with no care that your doing a wrong, to people who have only done right.
The writer of your letter arrogantly, without a care writes off, the best behaved people within our community and tries to make us feel good about it.
The insult is compounded by our Governments moral stand to protect Australia’s Muslims, all of them, so they are not judged and convicted for the actions of a few Muslim Criminals, yet has no compunction in pointing the bone at every Licensed Firearm Owners in Australia, using them as the ‘scapegoats’ for further persecutions. Disregarding, the fact that Licenced Firearm Owners behaviour is exemplary your government decides to deprive Licensed Firearm Owners of their property.
Your government says it is keeping up with modern technology, again this is an insult to our intelligence as the lever action technology is over 150 years old. Blaming an association with the Martin Place Siege and Mad Monis who never even had a legal firearm, or even a lever action firearm is part of another lie.
Tony Abbots decision reverses the recommendations of the Martin Place Siege Review, which recommended simplification of the firearm legislation and does not recommend further impositions on Licensed Firearms Owners.
Your departments response is contradictory within itself and produces more questions than it answers. For instance, I asked in my initial correspondence “for a copy of the legislative Act that has gone through the House to empower the PM to make decisions in a dictatorial way, to alter the Import Regulations at a whim, with no consultation, no mandate from the Australian people?”
The answer; “The legal basis for the prohibition is a regulation under the Customs (prohibited imports) Regulations 1956″
These current Regulations give no powers to the Prime Minister neither does this following section as the Prime Minister is not the Minister for Customs.
CUSTOMS ACT 1901 – SECT 77EA
Minister may order goods to be detained
(1) The Minister may, if the Minister considers that it is in the public interest to do so, order a Collector to detain the goods specified in the Minister’s order.
(2) At the time an order is made to detain goods:
(a) the goods must be goods the importation of which is restricted by the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956 ; and
(b) the goods must have been imported into Australia; and
(c) the importation of the goods must not breach this Act; and
(d) the goods must not have been:
(i) delivered into home consumption in accordance with an authority to deal with the goods; or
(ii) exported from Australia.
(3) An order to detain goods has effect despite any provision of this Act to the contrary.
You will notice that the goods must have been imported into Australia, where the goods in question have not been imported as yet.
Your response does not answer the question of how the Prime Minister, without the support of the Australian people, or even a determination from Parliament make a decision that disadvantages thousands of law abiding licenced firearm owners and law abiding licenced firearm dealers whom have all followed the legal process of acquiring the firearm that they need. Australia’s farmer’s are struggling to make a living, battling millions of feral animals that live on neighbouring government controlled land. Feral animals raid there crops every night of the week but farmers have been prevented from acquiring suitable firearms to assist in their control since 1996. Now, your government is facing them with further restrictions.
The second paragraph in your response states ” strike a balance between the interests of licensed Gun owners and the need of the broader community to live safely and securely”, is blatant nonsense as only the insane would believe that Licensed Gun Owners are ‘any threat to the safety and security of the broader community’ they are in fact an additional part of that broader communities safety and security. To logically prove that, if everyone in that community had to pass all the security tests of good character and security, and the ones that failed be deported to the middle east, Australia would sleep much more soundly and securely.
On that basis the National Firearms Agreement does Australia a huge mischief. Warren, your writer refers to Man Haron Monis, or one of his 31 other names, he could not have acquired a Firearms Licence as he was on over a 100 charges, one of which was accessory to murder. If he had been deported years earlier that murder may have been prevented and the Siege in the Martin Place Café would have certainly been prevented.
We have had two decades of this nonsense and hundreds of thousands of licenced firearm owners looked forward to a change to a more conservative government in the hope that commonsense would at last prevail and the innocent citizens with unblemished records would not be punished with renewal fines, impositions on their property, and instead the guilty, like
Man Haron Monis would have their rights curtailed, deported, or interred.
The Martin Place Siege Review concurs with the above sentiments as in its Recommendations Page IX it states.
“Recommendations on Immigration
1. Immigration should review its internal connectivity and information sharing processes to improve the Department’s ability to verify the initial supporting information provided by visa applicants wishing to travel to Australia.
2. Immigration should better assess the possible risks posed by individuals at the pre-visa, post-visa and pre-citizenship stages.
3. Immigration should propose policy and legislative changes necessary to support decisions to grant or revoke an initial visa, subsequent visas and, citizenship.
And on Page IX
Recommendation
6. The Commonwealth, States and Territories should simplify the regulation of the legal firearms market through an update of the technical elements of the National Firearms Agreement.
The definition of “Simplify” is to have less, not more regulations.
This was put even more strongly in the results of the Senate Constitutional Committee who spent 18 months and millions of dollars, reviewing Australia’s Gun Laws and returning a majority conclusion in Recommendation 5
“1.225 The majority of Senators attending the inquiry recommend State and territory governments investigate avenues to deregulate the firearm industry to ease the economic burden on governments, industry and legal firearm users.”
Licensed Firearm Owners expected some relief, but your government has again inversely punished the innocent, contradicting the above reviews with your punitive prohibitions on lever actions Shotguns which do not impact on inanimate objects they impact on the people. Your letter says you are not “targeting” “law abiding Gun Owners”. The Prime Minister who claims he has made this ‘decree’ has done nothing to relieve your ” Heightened threat environment” and seems to have made a decree illegally.
Man Haron Monis and all the Islamic ‘Bikers’ Gangs (not real bikers as they travel in vans) have proved that they have no problem acquiring illegal firearms, they will not hand them in at a buy back, the only way your going to take guns off those people is when they are dead. Your government has not made any serious move to intern and deport those Islamic’s who are “Heightening the Threat Environment”. Your government has ignored the recommendations of two Reviews that have been handed down this year to simplify and deregulate the Shooting industry and ignored the Martin Place Review to tighten immigration and justice, instead you have picked on the ‘whipping horse’ again.
Your government seems determined to destroy itself with a false policy of perceived ‘Political Correctness” of sacrificing Australia security, jobs, lives and property to defend people who give allegiance to a foreign ideology which has world domination as its central core thesis.
At least 20 000 Licensed firearm owners have waited to buy those firearms, a million licensed firearm owners feel they have been betrayed again. Ask the person you replaced, Tim Fischer, he will remember how it split the National Party last time.
The Prime Minister’s decree has not just prohibited lever action shotguns with a magazine capacity of more then five rounds, I have a customer/dealer who has applied for his Import permit for 500 lever action shotguns with a magazine capacity of 4 , and it has been denied until the Meeting in November. Dealers who have many hundreds of thousands of dollars outlaid, customers who have outlaid deposits are seething at the way they have been treated. They ordered property that has always been imported into Australia for 150 years, all in good faith, your government prohibits the import, they see your excuse, “To ensure that the Agreement remains current in light of technological advancement and changes to the firearm market” as a great lie. Lever Action Shotguns have been available at least since the 1887 Model Winchester came out in 12 gauge and the larger and more powerful 10 gauge. Eight shot magazines are no new invention and 1866 Model Winchester Rifles had 15 shot magazines. Are you going to empty the Museums as your government did in 1996 and 2003?
When in your last line you say ” In order to produce sensible, practical changes” you may please forgive the antagonism and public scorn that particular line will invoke as at every stage of what you call sensible practical changes over the last 18 years, firearm owners have called it ‘Oppression”. We have petitioned for redress in the most humblest of terms, our repeated petitions have always been answered by repeated impositions.
This ‘Yes Minister’ Speak is insulting and the person that wrote it for you should be dismissed but it has been of assistance, it is forewarning and preparing us to watch the further decline of Australian politics into the abyss of injustice.
When the next call comes for young Australians to volunteer to fight for freedom, a day that approaches with ever increasing velocity, what freedoms will be left worth their sacrifice?
Ron Owen
President
Firearm Owners Association.
O7 54 825070.
Barrelled Actions in .308 Winchester just 10 left, chose your own stocks. $485. plus post.
We can hold these prices for until Fathers Day 15 on the models we have left I stock. If you want a Tikka buy one now. $849 plus freight.
The Tikka T3 Lite has an all-black stock and a blued barrel. The light but sturdy T3 True Body fibre glass reinforced polymer stock is pure Sako innovation. The straight stock combines high performance with light weight ease. Positive checkering provides for comfort and firm grip in all weather conditions. In most calibres $849. Tikka Hunters, or Stainless models are more expensive.
Zastava has been competing against Brno for over 160 years, with a walnut stock, adjustable trigger, quality open sights, dovetailed for a scope, steel magazine and a steel magazine holder. For a quality rifle made in Europe there is none better. $395. ( 5 currently in stock) plus post.
Burris 3-9 x 40 variable scope, $109. or two for $200. plus post.
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Howa Model 1500 with Hogue stocks $580, all popular calibres in stock, Stainless and Heavy Barrels available at extra but still low prices.
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Mail order , in the Firearm industry has been getting a bad reputation of late, besides the Asia off shore internet mail order houses selling Fake Branded Rifle scopes with clear plastic instead of glass lenses, reticule adjusters that don’t work, but have a red and green illuminated cross hair, all with quality Brand names on the packaging, we have on shore internet sites that offer you pages where you put it in the shopping basket and give your card details and jobs done. But That’s Only The Start. Then the problems start either the goods do not arrive, you spend hours waiting on the phone, when you finally get some one the goods are out of stock and you have to wait till they come in, or the wrong goods appear and again you have to spend hours on the phone, just waiting to get through, then you pay to send it back and wait again for the next replacement, or there is an un expected large freight cost that was not made obvious to you when you put your order in the basket. None of this occurs at Owen Guns, we do not have online shopping baskets we encourage our mail order customers to make prior contact, to confirm that we have, just the stock you require, and you know exactly how much the freight component will cost you. It only takes a quick call to 07 54825070 or 0754824099 in shop hours 9 am to 5 pm on weekdays and 9am to 4pm on Saturdays, or fax to 07 54824718 with your credit card details, email owenguns@spiderweb.com.au emails and fax will be confirmed with freight component before dispatch. We want to encourage contact between our staff and customers, we want to make friends with our customers, some of who have been customers for over 40 years. If we fail, we want to know about it, so we can remedy it. Contact is the only way for lasting customer friendships to exist. TO ORDER. Details should include Name of card, ie Visa or Mastercard. Name on Card. Number on Card, Expiry Date of Card, 3 secret numbers on the rear of the card. Your home phone or mobile number. How you want it sent to you, ie mail or road freight. The address you want it sent to. Describe which item you want to purchase. On our website we also have shooting articles and important firearm information for the gun enthusiast. Take away free gun photos and free firearm images for your gun gallery collection. New firearm related material is being added every day. Any Inquiries on any products phone 07 54824099 or 07 54825070 or email owenguns@spiderweb.com.au NEW FIREARM SHOWROOM. CALL IN AND VIEW OUR DISPLAY OF 450 (plus) FIREARMS, Owen Guns at Gympie have our own Gun Shows permanently so please call in to see us. For a look at some at our other gun rooms please click on the link below. http://www.owenguns.com/gympie-shop/gun-rooms/ All the prices below are prices in the shop, or online but then you have to pay packing post, or freight. So save money and call in, all are welcome.
Mossberg Maverick Rifles, made in the USA, only in .270 and 30-06 great Deer rifles, Weaver Scope bases included, Scopes and rings of your choice at the extra dollars. Only 14 of these rifles are left to sell. First in with the dollars will be the beneficiaries. Phone 0754825070 with your credit card details. Everything in Stock at the time of publication, we can only hold prices while stocks last.
The JW 15 sometimes known as the Chinese Brno, the Norinco or the Puma. The best value .22 Rifle on the market. $195 Synthetic or Wood. As many of you are aware, the Jain Wia Model 15, or JW 15 Norinco, or JW Puma is a copy of the old bolt action Model 1 BRNO. It has been on the market for years and has a well earned reputation as a reliable accurate work horse. Basically the rifle is simple, it has a simple but large bolt, that has diametrically opposed double locking lugs, (not just locking on the bolt handle) which has the advantage of safer lock up behind the cartridge and broader locking surfaces that resist head space wear, as a high point on a single locking lug can quickly wear and the shooter will experience cartridge rims blowing out due to the excess headspace. It has a simple 5 round magazine which is steel and a steel magazine holder, all features that are sometimes missing on firearms that cost $1000 or more. They have simple trigger system almost identical to the Brno Model 1 that we all had no problem adjusting in the 1960s. The wooden stock is not walnut, it’s just a simple stock made of some unspecified Chinese wood, which has properties similar to Walnut. Rough on the inside but these day have an attractive oil finished on the outside, blink the eye and it looks like a CZ American Classic without the price tag. The action at first is not silky smooth like a Tikka, its a little gritty, but plenty of use, or take off the sharp edges with a fine wet and dry paper and it soon smooths down into a nice action. The same goes for the trigger as it is no frills, just require a little TLC on the adjustment and it always works. Forget the safety catch, you would need to be a Russian weightlifter, a Japanese Sumo wrestler to get it on and off, but all rifles are safe if the bolt is open and deadly dangerous when closed. No safety ever should be trusted, the bolt is much more visible and can be much easily visually checked by all present. My old JW Norinco is primarily a rabbit rifle. Countless rabbits have been sent to the happy hunting ground, and in the early 1990s I did get a AAA second in the Metallic Silhouettes Nationals and State Champions with it. In essence this is what the JW 15 is built for, it’s a hunting tool that is reliable and solidly built which can be used at the range for plinking and starting on the competition circuits. My JW is also accurate, at 100 metres using Eley Club, I can get a 5 shot group in less than an inch. I have seen it out shoot many more expensive rifles at the range. It is one of the rifles that I will never sell as it has earned my faith and trust in all of the endeavours I have asked for it, and will continue to do so for many years to come. Also at $195. they are the best value .22lr on the Australian market. So do yourself a favour and go get yourself one or two, you will be pleasantly surprised. Ron. Its Bargain Time.
The Pro Shooter is a full scale replica of the famous Colt 1911 a1 .45 auto. It is sold as a toy and is harmless, but it is a great training tool. Not only does the pistol have an adjustable laser so it can be zero with the sights, its best attribute is for teaching un aimed ‘Point and Shoot, finger pointing aiming for that first life saving split second shot. The soldiers fall over when hit dead in the centre and the optional self writing targets can be bought as optional extras. These targets can be set up in a row and shot one after the other. $45 for the pistol and soldiers and $16. For the self writing targets. Plus post. The kids might like them as well.
Gun Books Make Great Presents, Are Easy To Post and with years of use and enjoyment. Our Best Selling Book is Australian written and produced with the Australian Shooting conditions in mind “The Range Officer Handbook” pay by Pay Pal see Bulletin Special Announcement Page CLICK HERE As already purchased by members of all Shooting Organisations. Some have even bought two copies one for home and one to take to the club. See Book Reviews by Nick Harvey in Sporting Shooters and Guns Australia in our new Gun Book Category.
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