Showing posts with label firearms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label firearms. Show all posts
Friday 19 June 2020
Clarence Valley gun ownership remains relatively low to date in 2020
From 1 January to 31 March 2020 an est. 6% of the Clarence Valley population owned at least one registered firearm.
Clarence Valley firearm licence holders by postcode (excluding businesses, clubs, dealers & collectors) as of March Quarter 2020:
2460 - 2,202 people with 8,675 firearms (one person holding 158 individual firearms)
2462 - 277 people with 1,019 firearms
2463 - 496 people with 2,091 firearms
2464 - 146 people with 580 firearms
2465 - 26 people with 122 firearms
2466 - 74 people with 312 firearms
2469 - 600 people with 2,092 firearms
Total - 3,821 people*
NOTES
*Out of this total 680 individuals holding a firearm licence currently have no firearm in their possession.
Data can be found at
https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/685350/NSW_Firearms_Licensing_and_Ownership_Information_Mar20.pdf
Friday 21 June 2013
Robert Borsak and his friends want to slaughter this little brown duck and Barry O'Farrell said, Sure, go ahead!
Pink-eared Duck
Malacorhynchus membranaceus
Anatidae
Anatidae
approx. 38-40 cm in length
carnivorous & mostly consumes aquatic invertebrates, primarily chironomid larvae
prefers to breed on receding floodwaters and forage on wetland margins
Will the NSW Premier admit the Government got it wrong? Will he remove the Pink-eared Duck from the Shooters and Fishers kill list? asks the Clarence Valley Conservation Coalition on 10 June 2013.
Female Pink-eared Duck with ducklings
Not content with the O'Farrell Government opening up National Parks in New South Wales to hunters and passing the Game and Feral Animal Control Further Amendment Act 2012 to allow the killing of 14 native birds species on private land, Robert Borsack MLC now appears to have green lighting the re-introduction into the Australian community of semi-automatic weapons on his wish list.
Sunday 10 March 2013
Who said what in the current Australian gun crime debate
SYDNEY, Feb 27 AAP - NSW Attorney General Greg Smith says there’s a long way to go until drive-by shootings in western Sydney are brought under control.
Addressing a Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) conference in Sydney, Mr Smith said the problem of drive-by shootings was “smaller now than it was in 2001”.
However, he conceded the coalition government had not yet been able to fully combat it across western Sydney.
“It’s of great concern and we still have a long way to go in bringing it fully under control,” Mr Smith told the conference.
The comments come after a wave of shootings in the city’s west that have forced NSW police to establish Operation Apollo, a special strike force targeting gun crime.
Addressing a Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) conference in Sydney, Mr Smith said the problem of drive-by shootings was “smaller now than it was in 2001”.
However, he conceded the coalition government had not yet been able to fully combat it across western Sydney.
“It’s of great concern and we still have a long way to go in bringing it fully under control,” Mr Smith told the conference.
The comments come after a wave of shootings in the city’s west that have forced NSW police to establish Operation Apollo, a special strike force targeting gun crime.
The Sydney Morning Herald 7 March 2013:
On Sunday, Ms Gillard announced a $64 million ''national anti-gang taskforce''.
Ms Gillard said: ''When we look at the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, we see that, over the past 15 years, shootings in public places have soared.''
NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research Media Release 6 March 2013:
Ms Gillard said: ''When we look at the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, we see that, over the past 15 years, shootings in public places have soared.''
NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research Media Release 6 March 2013:
The claim by the Prime Minister that shooting offences in public places in NSW have ‘soared’ over the last 15 years is incorrect, according to the head of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.
The claim was reportedly made by the Prime Minister last Sunday when announcing various measures to tackle organised crime in NSW and other States.
According to the Director of the Bureau, the total number of non-fatal shooting offences in NSW peaked at a six-month average of over 40 incidents a month in November 2001 and then began to fall.
By December last year the six-monthly average number of non-fatal shooting incidents had dropped to around 25 a month.
‘Only one type of shooting incident has increased over the last two years. The offence of ‘unlawfully discharge firearm into premises’ rose from a six-monthly average of five in February 2010 to a six-monthly average peak of about 11 a month in August 2012.’
‘In the last three months of 2012, however, the incidence of this offence dropped sharply. The six-monthly average in December last year was back down to around 6 to 7 offences a month.’
More serious offences, such as ‘shoot with intent to kill’ have remained fairly low and stable since 1997. Homicide offences involving a firearm have actually fallen across Australia.’
National statistics
NSW Statistics
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