Victoria bans 5+ capacity bolt-action shotguns

[The Raven]

From another website

https://politicsreloaded.com/2024/08/10 ... -shooters/

Victoria bans 5+ capacity bolt-action shotguns

VICTORIA’S POLICE MINISTER has responded to a letter we submitted to get more information on why it banned bolt-action shotguns with capacities of more than 5 shots.

The response from he Office of Police Minister, Anthony Carbines, says that shooting organisations were consulted on a decision to ban bolt-action shotguns.

Carbines had previously told the media that bolt-action shotguns were being banned because they were prone to ‘opportunistic misuse’,

That’s an entirely new, and entirely discretionary approach to deciding that guns should be taken off shooters. All because of the “potential” to misuse them.

This is despite there being no examples of where these firearms had been misused.

We wrote to the minister pointing out that his decision was also inconsistent with the National Firearms Agreement. We also told him that “good policy needs to have a reliable rationale” if it was to benefit shooters and the broader community.

We thank the minister for responding. However, his response confirms that Victoria now has a policy of banning guns for no reason other than the possibility that they could be misused.

[The Raven]

Luckily mine is only a 3 shot.

Funny how the only people who keep messing with my rights are politicians, the criminals seem to have more respect.