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Originally Posted by Targan
I've never heard of that sort of argument actually being enunciated here in Oz but I'm absolutely certain that many authorities here feel that way. Very frustrating for people like me. I'm no gun nut but I believe that as long as a person has no criminal record, secures their firearms properly and is properly traned in the use and maintenance of firearms, they should be allowed to keep firearms in their homes and be allowed to defend themselves (on their own property) with them. Now that it is a non-issue over whether law abiding citizens can defend themselves, with firearms, in their own homes (because the government has taken nearly all the previously legal firearms away from people) the debate has moved to knives. Here in Perth the number of murders and serious assaults using knives has increased significantly in the past few years.
Back to the original question I'm not sure about the punishment here in Australia for owning an M-82 but there was a case here involving ex-Australian Army Captain Shane Della-Vedova who was involved in the theft and sale of nine LAW-66 rocket propelled grenade launchers (the media here still insists on calling them rocket launchers the fools). Only one of the weapons was ever recovered which is a bit scary. He was sentenced to 10 years prison last year.
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I definitely agree. We have the same problem in France and knives are an increasing problem. That's also why the film "Bowling for Columbine" was false. It never took anything but guns into account. That's also why we have many hunting accidents.
By the way, do you remember the scene in Crocodile Dundee, the scene where he draws out a big knife in face of the small city jerk. I know someone for whom it became true. That friend was coming back at night, and in the subway, from his sword class when he was assaulted by a guy holding a knife. Saddly for that guy, they had a saber course that day and that friend drew out a cavalry saber. In the outcome, the guy who assaulted him left the spot in underwears.
Another one, the only time I was assaulted with a knife, the guy was so stupid that he never realized that we had walked right in front of a police station. I'm still laughing my ass off when remembering that one.
A last one that occured in my last year of High School. Two brothers were in charge of security (both had a won a European championship in Martial Arts and both were of the tall large types). They (one with a broken arm) were assaulted in Paris by three guys (1 knive, 1 axe, 1 big woodstick). The wounded brother step aside and the other one said outloud that he was taking care of this. I still don't understand why these guys kept attacking. They each ended up for three months in an hospital.
Therefore, don't panic and you have a good chance to end up with the upper hand except of course if the guy is crazy. Then, you end up dead
Oops!
I'm still against guns at home but that's for an entirely different reason. Most people I know would tell you that they have it to defend themselves and scare someone away. I usually tell them that they are dead meat. In my familly (mother's side), we are taught to use firearms early but we are also taught that if you ever draw a firearm out that's only with one goal in mind: shooting down the other guy with no hesitation and with intention to kill. Moreover, at a time when we thought someone broke into our house (I was a kid), my father took out the gun and I took out my crossbow. I was more scared of him than of the guy who could have appeared in front. A trembling person who had never used a gun standing behind you with a 12 gauge rifle in his hand is a scary situation. As a result, I don't have a firearm at home.
For the Barret, I have no clue what the penalty would be. Since we had a member of a town administration (the guy with the RPG took him for a cop
) being blown up with an RPG they are reworking on that part of the law. As a result, it would be at least 3 years.