Attention - MUST READ --- IPSC called Terrorist training

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Here in Brisbane Queensland Australia, a National TV Station - CH. 7 will be airing a completely BIASED story tommorrow evening at 6PM Brisbane time.
They will be slanting the public opinion to the effect that IPSC, IDPA & the Olympic promotional sport of Combat Shooting is nothing more than "Terrorist Training" !
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If ANY of you people can get this on Sattelite or something, it may be in your interest to do so....
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(For the Aussie guys)
Aw crap, here we go again! :(


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Mate

This has been going on for at least 12 months.

IPSC is "teaching people to kill"
and
Western Action is "adults playing Cowboys with guns".

I refused to take up Pistol shooting at my club for this very reason. I'm not spending a grand or more only to lose my gun in 12 months.

But even though I don't shoot handgun, I'm still fighting this one with letters and e-mails.

Please let us know what was actually said/presented.

Regards
Bruce
 
Handgun Control's Violenc Policy Cener has been pushing this theme for about 6 months. So far the media have been ignoring it. That's always subject to change. It just goes to show there is no legitimate reason to own a handgun, and if you ask HCI, no right to do so either.
As an aside it took the national media about six months to jump on the 50 caliber rifle band wagon after HCI started pushing that issue. So it is coming.

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So does this mean that I should feel guilty for the IPSC match I'm planning to compete in next weekend?

What a minute . . . no. :rolleyes:

I have suddenly found renewed strength in not allowing acronyms to bend my will to sensationalized media.

Once again, I have come away from a conflict a stronger, more independently thinking individual.

:p

[This message has been edited by Johnny Got His Gun.1 (edited February 06, 2000).]
 
Well, OK. Then it's terrorist training.
Does that mean then, that all the training our military & police types receive, classify them as terrorists? For they do it for a living, period. That's the day job, so to speak. Any sanctioned shooting body admits all flavor of competitors, some are in the LEO, and military fields I believe.
Who are they calling terrosts then?
They ought be more careful with their words. And they should use a word processor, instead of a coloring book. A child can do a better job of coloring a picture to show their view of what an object is. That's because children don't know yet the art of lying. And with proper parental guidance, and love, and care, they never will know it, just recognize it.

Maybe Sadam Hussein was right then, perhaps our military is nothing more than terrorists. And our politicians and leaders, are wannabe Gods!!

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The most foolish mistake we could make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms; history shows that all conquerers who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall.
Adolf Hitler

[This message has been edited by Donny (edited February 06, 2000).]
 
OH LORD, here we go again. Why can't these morons leave us alone!!!!!

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Just as there is no such thing as too much fun,
there is no such thing as owning just one gun!!!

Off my meds (quit smoking), armed to the teeth, and loose on an unsuspecting society!!!
 
And I thought it meant "I Practice Shooting
Criminals"
The only weapons bought back were autoloading
rifles-which of course we all handed in.
Nobody (have you noticed when people say that
,they mean "I don't" and Everybody means "I
do")trusts our Feral Government and I wouldn't bet that they are done yet.
 
And the drivers ed courses our kids take in high school is teaching them to be bank robbery wheelmen!

Somebody needs to slap some "common sense" thinking into the Antis.

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[This message has been edited by jcoyoung (edited February 07, 2000).]
 
I'd have to agree with Donny. The training we receive from Unca' Sugar is some of the best available. Won't all of the well-trained, right-wing fanatics become terrorists? I know ex-Seals, Sneaky Petes, A.B. Rangers, LRRP people, etc. My what a terrorist cell we could form. Yea, right, and Klinton is another J. Holmes. These bureaucrats need to leave the country in the hands of the people and get on with what they were elected to do...THE PEOPLE'S WILL!!! Time to stumble off the soapbox...I know, time for medication.. RKBA!

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HAVE MORE FUN WITH A .41
 
Ok back to Defcon 1.... :o


Well, it looks like we’re off the hook for a while as the story was about a Security company training Body Guards in Anti Terrorist Tactics!
My Wife saw the “blurb” for the show last night and the wording & pictures shown made it look like a bunch of IPSC shooters were of the gung ho persuasion & were training for less than Lawful careers. :(
In the story they were clearing rooms in a building mockup & shooting into a car & being shown how to do it by an ex-FBI agent, a Mr. Bob Tolbet.
They are also being shown self defense methods, such as using a baton to disarm an attacker with a knife.
Fortunately, the story had nothing to do with Handgunners here in Aus.
Whew….
Was sweating bullets for a while! ;)

Just because they ARE out to get us, doesn’t mean that 100% of Aussie shooters might be Paranoid!
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Aussie Gun Buyback
The guns that were banned were Semi-Auto rifles & Semi-Auto & Pump Action shotguns.
Tasmania did have some ODD Full Auto licence like your Class 3 but I still haven't found a reliable source to give details.
So Full Auto's out too ! :(
We can own ANY type of concealable firearm with an overall length that is LESS than 76 cm.
Roughly 26 & 1/2".
Some guys were known to keep there Semi Auto rifles by Legally having the barrel & stock cut down to fit the 76cm OAL & having them REGISTERED as a handgun !
On THE LAST DAY of the buyback, the Govt. redefined the Pump Action law to the effect of that if you were a gun Club member & used it for shooting Clays you could keep it. :)
Pity that 99,9% of them were already handed in & were SCRAP METAL by the time this law was changed
In the case of Farmers, they can go to the local Police & obtain Govt. issued Semi Autos & Pump shotties for stock & vermin control.
So in conclusion, we're NOT entirely gunless but hey, give OUR Govt. ANY excuse & I'm sure we will be just like England,,,, :(
The Port Arthur shooting of 35 people was the "main" reason the gun laws were changed & the buy back happened.
As well as the Hoddle Street shootings & a few others as well...
Have a look at
http://www.southcom.com.au/~geniac/pa/290496ex.htm & http://www.anzwers.com.au/cgi-bin/p...&result_type=detailed&s earch.x=38&search.y=7
Don't have a clue as to why Shotguns were deemed to be a "problem" though !


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Hey Blue Heeler regarding your IPSC acronym...
I figured that out too ! ;)
Does make sense doesn't it :D


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HS2000@ausi.com




[This message has been edited by HS (edited February 07, 2000).]
 
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