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.
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 it should not be legal to have a handgun at home?
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.
C’mon, mate. Let’s not pretend this story would have played out the same if he didn’t have guns. Police were on their way. They arrived on time to hear the last shot. If he had a knife or hammer or similar, the odds of both these women being dead by the time police arrived plummet to near zero.
This time last week, he was a law abiding gun owner. That’s kind of the problem. People were raising red flags all around the dude, but on paper he’s a 60 year old, affluent man living in a rich suburb with no criminal history. The law doesn’t presently have a way to handle this - you can’t punish someone who hasn’t done anything.
