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The symbolic Doomsday Clock, which indicates how close our planet is to complete annihilation, is now only 100 seconds away from midnight.
Wake up people, we are fast running out of time!!!
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Australia
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
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Is A Bow And Arrow Illegal In NSW - The Loose Cannon By Simon Munslow | 5 May 2020
I have written previously about Weapons Prohibition Act 1996, and
unfair results that can arise from its all-encompassing wording, which makes
even the submarine pressure hull in the park at Holbrook, and WW1 trench art,
prohibited weapons. (Schedule 1, 1A (1).
The prohibition of some of the items listed is understandable,
however the definition of flick knife ‘a knife that has a blade which
opens automatically by gravity or centrifugal force or by pressure applied to a
button’ could be applied to many innocently owned folding knives where the
screw between the bolster and blade has worked loose (Schedule 1 1(1).
A flame thrower is defined as ‘Any device that is of military
design or any other device that is capable of projecting ignited incendiary
fuel’- (Schedule 1, 1A (3). So, a pressure can could be considered a
flame thrower- so don’t try that James Bond trick any time soon.
Perhaps the most worrying is Sch 1 4(9) which prohibits:
‘Any device (regardless of composition) that is designed to propel or
launch a bomb, grenade, rocket or missile by any means other than by means of
an explosive, including a device known as a PVC cannon’.
Missile is not defined in the Act, but if one turns to the most
commonly used interpretive aid in Australian Courts, the Macquarie Dictionary,
it lists arrows as an example of a missile.
So, whilst clearly intended to target the PVC cannon- a tube used to
fire frozen apples and oranges by using aerosol gas as a fuel, and a barbecue
igniter as a trigger, (and which physics teachers love to demonstrate) captures
the common bow and arrow.
I realise a lot of you are thinking at the moment, your daft, Game
laws permit hunting with bows!
Yes, they do, but that does not mean that the bow is lawful!
You have to remember how much of an Ass the law can be!
Is this a mistake? I do not think so. This legislation
has been written very broadly as a result of two things:
Policy Officers have not understood all of the permutations of weapon
that could be involved, let alone quite possibly what they were seeking to
prohibit, and there has been a desire to anticipate other types of devices, so
the law has been written broadly.
The breadth of approach dovetails with another problem. Whether an
offence has been committed or not often comes down to the interpretation of a
Police Officer, and in some instances, the officer’s imagination, desire to
protect the community from that imagination, plus the desire for a result.
Generally, Police do not go looking for this sort of prosecution, it
would typically be by what a Police Officer considered a public order matter
where someone had lodged a complaint, or a Policeman has wasted time attending
your home in respect to an allegation of violence, or you have upset the
officer, or for some other reason the officer is looking for a ‘result’.
Sadly, I see enough matters involving what I would class as petty
criminal offences that to me should fall below a discretionary threshold
decision of whether or not to be prosecute to cause me concern.
Should you go running off and lodge an application for a Prohibited
Weapons Permit for a bow and arrow?
Here I can only speak for myself- and this is not advice- If I was
just a bow hunter, I probably would not bother, but as a licenced firearms
owner, I am particularly cautious about avoiding ANY breach of the law,
including prohibited weapons legislation, because my firearms licence means so
much to me, and a breach of the law for me, would have certain legal
implications as a legal practitioner.
I am also conscious of an ‘attitude’ that some Police (thankfully not
all) hold toward firearms owners and the impact of a culture of booking people
in order to get a ‘result’, rather than the kind of community Policing /
caution methodology used in other states that regards prosecution as a last
resort.
If the Registry is concerned about a flood of Permit requests, from
bow hunters, I make the following suggestion.
When I worked as a Regulatory Lawyer for the Commonwealth, we
developed the concept of a Class licence, as a means of licensing everyone with
certain types of equipment (ie CB radio) that we did not want to be bothered
regulating. It worked well.
The logical choice here would be for the Commissioner to issue a
Class Permit, that effectively grants a permit a device to certain types of
prohibited weapon, which are held with a genuine reason for possession.
Another possibility would be a prosecution policy that removes low
threshold offences from the realm of prosecution unless there is a significant
aggravating factor. The Director of Public Prosecutions in NSW has a
clear policy in this regard, but I have been unable to find such a policy for
Police.
The solution is quite easy- it just calls on some good will and
common sense on behalf of regulators and a willingness to educate themselves
about what they seek to regulate.
The outcome of such an approach would be that the public know where
they stand, and at present, we do not.
Simon Munslow
National Firearms Lawyer
P: (02) 6299 9690
M: 0427 280 962
E: solicitor@bigpond.com
W: firearmslawyer.com.au
P: (02) 6299 9690
M: 0427 280 962
E: solicitor@bigpond.com
W: firearmslawyer.com.au
Simon Munslow is a lawyer who has a lifelong interest in shooting,
having acquired his first firearm at the age of nine, and has had an active
interest in firearms law since writing a thesis on the topic over thirty years
ago at University.
Simon Munslow practices extensively in Firearms Law matters throughout Australia.
Simon Munslow practices extensively in Firearms Law matters throughout Australia.
He is a regular contributor to the Australian Sporting Shooter
magazine’s website on Firearms law matters, has published articles on firearms
reviews and firearms law, and occasionally is asked to comment in the broader
media on firearms matters.
This article is written for general information only and does not
constitute advice.
He can assist you with:
He can assist you with:
Criminal law & Administrative law and in particular that related
to Firearms
• All firearms, weapons and game charges
• Avoiding & setting aside Apprehended Violence Orders
• Possession of unregistered firearms
• Unsafe transportation & storage matters
• Applications for prohibited weapons
• License Appeals
• Freedom of Information / Government Public Access matters
• Importation & Customs problems
• Advices & opinions related to Firearms law matters
• Avoiding & setting aside Apprehended Violence Orders
• Possession of unregistered firearms
• Unsafe transportation & storage matters
• Applications for prohibited weapons
• License Appeals
• Freedom of Information / Government Public Access matters
• Importation & Customs problems
• Advices & opinions related to Firearms law matters
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New South Wales, Australia
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years!!!
Our corrupt Australian government is giving the city people what they want today, at the cost of our children's lives tomorrow!!!
Are you all going to sit on the fence & let this happen, or are you going to rise up & take control?
The human cost of the climate crisis will
hit harder, wider and sooner than previously believed, according to a study that
shows a billion people will either be displaced or forced to endure
insufferable heat for every additional 1C rise in the global temperature.
In a worst-case scenario of accelerating emissions, areas currently
home to a third of the world’s population will be as hot as the hottest parts
of the Sahara within 50 years, the paper warns. Even in the most optimistic
outlook, 1.2 billion people will fall outside the comfortable “climate niche”
in which humans have thrived for at least 6,000 years.
The authors of the study said they were “floored” and “blown away” by
the findings because they had not expected our species to be so vulnerable.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/05/one-billion-people-will-live-in-insufferable-heat-within-50-years-study?CMP=share_btn_tw
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/05/one-billion-people-will-live-in-insufferable-heat-within-50-years-study?CMP=share_btn_tw
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Location:
Australia
Saturday, May 2, 2020
How climate change could make infectious diseases even more difficult to combat in the future
The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the deadliest virus outbreaks
in modern history.
But researchers fear this pandemic could only be the beginning of a
new battle against infectious disease outbreaks – the World Health Organisation
warns that climate change could make the spread of disease even worse in the
coming decades.
Researchers worry that rising temperatures could cause animals to
spread disease in more widespread areas, make pathogens more savvy at surviving
in hot climates, and possibly weaken the human body’s immune response.
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