The gun at the centre of the present gun control debate, the Adler 7 shot lever action shotgun.
The following article was originally posted on www.ifyouaskme.com.au:
If you ask me, the present Adler shotgun debate, and the associated debate on the gun laws of Australia, has been manufactured by the lies and fear-mongering of the Australian Greens, Gun Control Australia (GCA) and many biased media outlets. By misleading the public, and totally misrepresenting the issues, these anti-gun zealots are forcing changes to the National Firearms Agreement (NFA) 1., which is the very thing they claim to be preserving. This is basically ‘legislation by deception’ and is symptomatic of everything that is wrong with the political process today. It is also why so many people have no faith, no respect and no trust in most politicians and almost all of the media.
The claim of these anti-gun fanatics, which is at the heart of this debate, is that the 7-shot Adler shotgun is in breach of the NFA and that, to allow it to be imported, would be watering down Australia’s gun laws. However, this is an absolute lie on several levels and we will quickly examine why this is a lie.
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Lever Action Shotguns are Already Legally Available.
The anti-gunner pundits 2. would have the public believe that the Adler is a new invention with state-of-the-art technology that is outside the NFA. They would also have the public believe that it is some sort of ‘death machine’ capable of ‘super high rates of fire’ and that it has no application for sporting shooters. This is just a mass of lies and imaginings created by the anti-gun crowd.
There is absolutely no new technology in the Adler shotgun and it is just another lever action shotgun to add to those that are already available. You see, the NFA has always allowed private ownership of lever action shotguns and there are already many lever action shotguns legally available in Australia. Indeed, lever action shotguns have been readily available, in the Australian marketplace, since 1887 and, in all of those 129 years, they have not presented themselves as some ‘deadly hyper-fire weapon’, as the media and GCA have ridiculously asserted about the Adler.
Some of the lever action shotguns that are already legally available and some have been available for 129 years.
Maximum Magazine Capacity of NFA is 10.
The NFA set the maximum number of rounds 3., which any firearm can hold, at ten (10). So how can the seven (7) shot Adler be a breach of the NFA? Isn’t seven a number that is three less than ten?
Isn’t seven a number that is three less than ten?
In addition, there is already a five (5) shot Adler available for sale in Australia. So can anyone, who has not been duped by the manufactured hysteria of the Greens, GCA and the media, please explain how two (2) additional rounds of ammunition make this such a ‘terrifying’ prospect? The truth is that no one can; because it is just more madness from the anti-gun crowd.
Maclolm Turnbull and Tony Abbot
Malcolm Turnbull (left) and Tony Abbott (right) are both acting outside the NFA that they claim to defend.
Both the Prime Minister (unelected) and the former Prime Minister (elected) have come out on the side of the anti-gun crowd and said that they will not allow the ‘watering down’ of Australia’s gun laws. Accordingly, they are opposed to the importation of the 7-shot Adler shotgun.
Do these two politicians really think that allowing the importation of the 7-shot Adler shotgun, which already fits within the guidelines of their much-exaulted NFA, to be a breach of that very same NFA?
Do these two men know so little about the NFA, that they profess to defend, that they don’t realise that they are repeating the lies of the anti-gun groups? Or are they simply afraid to speak the truth when they think that the biased media will turn on them? If this latter option is true, then these are not the sort of people we need leading the nation.
Further, and more importantly, do either of them realise that, by prohibiting the importation of the 7-shot Adler shotgun, they are actually perverting and changing the NFA that they claim to be defending? Legislation applies to the Government just as much as it applies to the public – a principle that seems to have been forgotten by many politicians.
By denying the importation of the 7-shot Adler lever action shotgun, Malcolm Turnbull is changing the NFA. Through this ban he has departed from the agreement and is, in effect, making legislation through deception. If he genuinely believes in the NFA, then he should honour what it says, ignore the rantings of the anti-gun crowd and get back to the real job of running the country.
The anti-gun crowd, through their blatant and ongoing campaign of lies and misinformation, would seem to be adherents to this quote by Adolf Hitler. Hitler was one of the first advocates of gun control and we all saw how that turned out!
In part two, to this article, I will be taking a look at some of the people who have been key players in the gun control debate and who have actively participated in the fiction that is the Adler controversy. I will also examine some of the ridiculous claims, that they have made, and which have been accepted, without examination, by politicians, the media and the ill-informed public.
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Notes:
- NFA = National Firearms Agreement, which is a set of guidelines that the states were forced to agree to when former Prime Minister John Howard, introduced his ‘tough’, uniform gun laws in 1996. The term agreement is hardly accurate considering that John Howard blackmailed the states into this agreement,
- For a better definition of Pundit, you might was to read: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/pundit
- A round of ammunition is the correct way to describe, what the media often mistakenly calls, a bullet,
- It should also be noted that falling-block, single shot and double barrelled firearms also use a lever to open the action but this does not make them lever action firearms and to call single shots or double barrelled firearms ‘lever action’ is completely incorrect and misleading but this has been done on occasions.
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