Off Topic Chat. (MOD NOTE post# 3949 and post#5279)

Grizzly 45

Who or what group is circulating this report in the Dail?

They Call Me Trinity

This report has been out for four years already. Why is this being circulated in the Oireachtas now? And by whom?

Munsterlad102

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121886161#Comment_121886161

I can think of a few politicians from Waterford alone that could benefit from firearms bans and have advocated for them in the past.

Grizzly 45

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120720227#Comment_120720227

About the best that I can find on short notice."knife crime" is a hodgepodge of figures as the AGS doesn't keep separate statistics on individual case groupings. IE whether it is our new Irish citizens waving machetes on tikTok videos in some housing estates,or some poor batterd partner in a domestic dispute landing a lucky swipe on their aggressor with the bread knife. Ignore the misleading IT headline to the article https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2023/08/19/hse-figures-show-increase-in-knife-attacks-as-gun-violence-continues-to-decline/

Mellor

Interesting story from Oz

Brunswick West gun collector charged, stripped of weapons

A gun collector has been charged after 278 weapons were seized from his Brunswick West home.

Detectives from the armed crime squad confiscated the firearms after two inspections of the 60-year-old’s property this week.

They will allege there were unregistered guns, weapons which could not be identified and others bearing serial numbers which came up to different firearms. There were other guns which could not be found. The Brunswick West man faces 13 counts of possessing an unregistered firearm, trafficking firearms and 17 charges of failing to produce a firearm upon request.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-victoria/brunswick-west-gun-collector-charged-stripped-of-weapons/news-story/f7868e53f41fda7805d592bd07292556

It's been suggested that there could be logical explanation for a lot of this. Such as the system data not being up to date, ie some of the firearms there were requested had been sold previously, given to a dealer etc. Firearms that can't be identified, but simply be old and worn guns, given its a extensive collection, I'd guess there are a few antiques. Unregistered, could also just be incomplete records

Grizzly 45

Looks like this report on the Christchurch shooting sent to the Dail Justice Committee was a nothing-burger.

No one has stepped forward to claim its circulation,it came the 4th anniversary of Christchurch, strange that whoever did this missed a trick with the Dunblane massacre around the same time on the 13th of March if they had bad intent to us. Wiser heads to the political game reckon it was a journalist or the like throwing out a lure to see if anyone would bite and develop a headline out of this.

They needn't have bothered when we have utter knob ends who go and shoot sea eagles or GAA players who provide plenty of headlines and paper-inch filler and ammo for the antis to condemn us as a whole in the letter pages.

Manic Moran

Finnish government is building 300 ranges for public use.

https://www.businessinsider.com/finland-border-russia-new-shooting-ranges-national-defense-intense-2024-2#:~:text=Finland%2C%20which%20shares%20a%20border,interest%20in%20national%20defense%20surge&text=Finland%20plans%20to%20open%20new,following%20Russia's%20invasion%20of%20Ukraine.

kowloon

Does anyone know what the story is with Ashbourne district lately? A few people have told me they've had difficulty getting a hold of the FAO(s?).

Al_Bundy

The chap that has taken over hasn't got a clue what he's doing and is extremely slow at getting anything done, renewals not getting posted until after certs have expired, i know a fella who was waiting 3 months for a substitution. The two previous fao's were great.