School shooting sparks call for handgun restrictions
AAP Newswire, Wednesday, 24 September, 2008
Tim Bannister, spokesman and Federal Parliamentary Lobbyist for the Sporting Shooters’ Association of Australia, said local handgun shooters had to pass strict licensing rules and regulations.
“They are about the safest people in Australia, according to the Australian Institute of Criminology,” he said.
“The majority of criminal acts with firearms are committed by people with unregistered handguns and who aren’t licensed themselves.”
An example was bikie Christopher Hudson, jailed for 35 years in Melbourne this week after shooting dead one person and wounding another two, he said.
The tragedy of the mass shooting in Finland was that police had interviewed the gunman and had information to show he was unbalanced.
“He just shouldn’t have been in possession of a firearm, let alone be licensed for it,” Mr Bannister said.
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