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OME, they're called trench digging machines - you can even get trenching attachments for Bobcats. Doesn't take long to install a 200M narrow trench with them. No-one - but no-one - digs trenches by hand any more.

And people such as Robbie Katters BIL, Robert Nioa, who is a firearms dealer, promoted all these new styles of firearms. Firearms dealers need to have vastly more stringent controls imposed on them.

I know the White Supremicists are a problem - but they are reacting to the threat created by Islamic takeover of Western values. At the end of the day, the Middle East is where the vast majority of terrorism exists, and is promoted. This bloke has some good points about the politicians constant creation of more burdens and restrictions on ordinary folk, simply because people in the positions tasked with keeping us safe under existing laws, aren't competent at their jobs.

OME, that water pipe needs to be deeper in the ground.

Politicians take the easy way out all the time, and guy buybacks and a reduction in firearms ownership with simplistic rules is what happens every time. The politicians need to develop a firearms ownership system that contains intense examination of people wanting firearms, their character, what is driving their "need" to have a firearm (or multiple firearms), their social behaviour history, their attitude towards women, and whether they suffer from extreme jealousy and view women as chattels, and any record of beliefs or religious views that contain specified hatreds. Add in any record of depression involving suicidal thoughts and firearms, and stop all those who present with behavioural problems, from acquiring firearms, and that will solve a lot of the problem. Muslims who believe in jihad and fatwas need to be very closely monitored, and never given a licence for any firearm. We already have laws forbidding criminals from gaining firearms licences, the final step is doubling the efforts to prevent possession of illegal firearms, and to prevent the illegal firearms trade. Double the sentences for being in possession of illegal firearms. Add possession of illegal firearms to the terrorism laws, treat illegal firearms possession like the terrorism it is. The links between major violent crimes, the drug trade, and illegal firearms is already well known, take these people out of society for much longer periods.

Lemon-scented gums and Redgums are amongst the worst for sudden limb drop. A mate's father was a professional tree faller, and he told me his Dad said to him, "Never sit for lunch under a Redgum!" One of the most incredible tree limb falling events happened to a former farmer client of mine. He and his brother, both lifetime bachelors, ran a small farm in the SE Wheatbelt of W.A. They'd inherited the farm from their deceased parents. They had several trees adjacent to the front gate of their driveway. Every time they went somewhere, they drove down the driveway, parked each side of the gate to open and shut it, and walked under those trees. They did that for over 70 years. Then one day, they arrived home, the brother driving stopped at the gate, the other brother got out to open the gate - and a big limb fell from one of the trees, right on top of him, as he walked to the gate - killing him on the spot! Talk about, "that tree limb has your name on it"!

The 7 Islamics who were arrested in Sydney on suspicion of organising to carry out another terrorist attack, have all been released without charge. The Police couldn't find any evidence of wrongdoing, no firearms and no explosives - and obviously, no record of online threats to kill Jews. But NSW Police chief, Mal Lanyon, stated the 7 "were known to Police", and homemade IS flags were found in one of the cars the 7 Islamics were travelling in. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/19/we-did-nothing-wrong-seven-men-released-from-custody-in-sydney-deny-islamist-links

Kind of looks like the Police interrupted a peaceful gathering of Islamic scholars, intent on discussing Jewish problems. They haven't got one firearm, or one explosive device, between them! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-19/nsw-seven-arrested-liverpool-bondi-victoria-police/106161610

The more Trump tries to jail people who set out to prove his criminal actions, the more he opens up a Pandoras Box about himself. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jack-smith-tells-congress-prove-trump-engaged-criminal-scheme-overturn-rcna249715

Nah, just another gang assassination thwarted, most likely. There's one nearly every day in SW Sydney, now. But it should be treated as terrorism, and longer penalties handed out accordingly.

This takes the cake for nut-kicking political activism - Getup! has printed a large number of "fake" Woolworths discount cards - with a hard-hitting message - and are placing them on Woolworth shelves. Their target is price gouging by grocery corporations - and in particular, the corporate CEO bonus system - which saw Woolies CEO get a $24M bonus last year. Note, that is their salary BONUS!! - not their salary! I thought this kind of "unjust enrichment" was largely limited to banks. Obviously, not so - it now spreads far and wide throughout the corporate world. https://www.perthnow.com.au/wa/perth/satirical-specials-tag-found-at-booragoon-supermarket-sparks-debate-about-price-gauging-c-21033223

You all know that Robert Pirsig suffered from schizophrenia, and underwent convulsive electrotherapy as treatment for it, don't you? All the while he was cruising around on his Honda with his son, he was mentally ill, and suffering from depression! 😄

Make sure the oil hasn't spread onto the flywheel and coil. Take the engine cowling off and clean the outside surface of the flywheel and magnet and the section of the coil that sits close to the flywheel. Use some emery cloth to clean up the flywheel outer surface and check the coil to flywheel gap. Install a new spark plug (90% of starting problems). Use some "Carburettor & Throttle Body Cleaner" (spray can) to clean out the carburettor passageways. No sorry, all that above is made-up BS. What actually happened is, you killed the little hamster inside the engine that makes it go, when you tipped it over and left it. You need a new engine hamster.

The W.A. system is largely digital/computer-based - BUT - as always, there are a number of firearms owners who are not computer literate, and more importantly, they reside in many far-flung areas of the State, where computer access is limited due to inadequate internet/phone service coverage. As a result, firearms users can apply to keep using paper records - and they currently have to keep their A4 size paper firearms licence with them when they are purchasing ammo, or transporting their firearms. As you might all know, W.A. has had a new, revised and much tougher Firearms Act since last year, in a reaction to a vicious depraved murderous bastard, who owned 13 firearms legally - but who was in a bitter dispute with his ex-wife - and he was mentally unstable. Despite his daughter warning the W.A. Police several times that he was dangerous, shouldn't own firearms, and had continually threatened to kill her mother, the W.A. Police did nothing. Accordingly, this murderous bastard set out on a trip to the city looking for his wife, to kill her - broke into her female friends house, looking for her (and she wasn't there) - and when he realised he wasn't going to able to kill her, he killed her friend and her daughter instead. The daughter went ballistic and went on a campaign for tighter firearms laws, and the W.A. Police reprimanded 8 officers for numerous failures in failing to adhere to the previous Firearms Licensing laws. And of course, the Premier and MP's went on a knee-jerk rampage, carried out a major gun buyback, stated they were intent on removing around 90,000 firearms licences from firearms owners in the city - stating they had no need for firearms - and they've pretty much achieved their aims. Many firearms owners I know, have given up on owning firearms here, the Govt has just made it too hard. Many farmers are complaining they can't even get hold of a firearm to destroy stock or vermin. It's all a violent over-reaction on the part of the States MP's and Premier, and tens of thousands of W.A. firearms owners have paid a heavy price, simply because the W.A. Police didn't do their job properly, previously. https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/western-australia-police-force/licensing-services-firearms

Pauline's got all the answers - just shoot anyone who even looks like a Muslim. Here she is, practicing her Muslim Shoot .... 😞 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1165135809140514

There was no co-ordination between the States licencing authorities for decades, due to parochial interests, and "jurisdictional claims and interests". Then, in late January 2006, a rapist/double murderer, who raped and murdered two sisters, one after the other in Melbourne, stole one of the womens cars and took off to the North of Australia. The murderer was intercepted on a lonely section of the NW Coastal Hwy, many kms from Karratha, about 3 days after the murders, by a lone police officer, Sgt Gray, who was looking for him, for driving off without paying for fuel. The murderer (a giant of a man) jumped out of the stolen car and launched a massive king hit attack on the policeman, breaking 13 bones in his face in the one hit. The policeman went down, but came back up again, and the murderer came at him again. The policeman drew his firearm and killed the murderer on the spot, with one accurate shot (he just happened to be a firearms trainer in the W.A. Police). But for over 6 hrs, no-one knew who the murderer was, who the car belonged to, and what the murderer had done. This was all due to a lack of a national database of vehicle registrations and a lack of information-sharing between State Police forces. Within a very short time after this disturbing event, a national database of vehicle registrations was initiated, accessible to any police officer anywhere in Australia, and other important information-sharing on fleeing felons and violent crimes was established. If it took just one murderous attack on a lone police officer in the Outback to galvanise the States into action to produce real-time violent crime information-sharing, and a vehicle registration database to be set up - then I'm sure Australia's worst terrorist attack on our soil, should ensure that everything that is needed, to standardise firearms laws and requirements across Australia, and to set up a national database of firearm owners, and those on terrorism watch, is rapidly carried out.

There's another couple (who became victims) who deserve medals, and that's an older couple named Boris and Sophia Gurman. They tackled the father, Sajid Akram, as he started shooting, but failed to overpower him, lost their balance, fell over, and were both shot dead by Akram as a result. Their attempt to disarm Sajid Akram was accidentally captured on the dashcam of a car being driven past, as the terrorists started their rampage. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/16/boris-and-sofia-gurman-identified-as-couple-who-lost-lives-trying-to-stop-bondi-gunmen-as-attack-began-ntwnfb

One can only hope that one criminally deranged, "hero of the Motherland" war veteran, takes out Putin, someday soon.

My God, this thread is going to become another "War and Peace" tome! - and all centred around a motorbike!

America has never acted out of the goodness of its heart, towards anyone. It has always acted in the best interests of America, American corporations, and American people. Americans believe all other nations and cultures are inferior to them. Even as far as Australia is concerned, the Americans never acted out of the goodness of their heart to save Australia and Australians, they used Australia as a convenient base, from which they needed to stop the Japanese attacks on America and its commercial interests, and to wrest control of the Pacific region from the Japanese. The ugliest part of the Americans behaviour in WW2 was using 60,000 Australian troops and all our best military forces, to carry out the unnecessary and costly Borneo invasion campaign in May 1945 - Operation Oboe. We lost nearly 600 good men in three operations to take out the remaining Japanese soldiers on Borneo, who were all basically stuffed, anyway, with no logistics left - but the Japanese fought to the death, and often carried out suicide missions. Operation Oboe was an operation designed to cater to MacArthurs overweening arrogance and self-aggrandisement, and to promote American strength. https://www.awmlondon.gov.au/battles/borneo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneo_campaign

Well, they managed to kill 15 people, so that's not exactly a low toll. I can't hear the shooting sounds, my hearing is buggered, but I did see a shotgun shell on the ground, and it looked like a 12 ga, but it was difficult to judge, because there was nothing around it to compare, size for size.

They obviously failed to measure all those big Negro studs.

I think randomx might not have measured too precisely on those shooting distances. I've shot a lot of bunnies, and even being able to hit one at 100M is outstanding markmanship. Hitting a bunny at 500M is in the realm of fantasy, you'd need tele sights to even see the bunny, and the amount of bullet trajectory drop over 500M, even in a high-powered centre fire, long barrelled rifle, is huge, and it would need a substantial setup for steadying the weapon, and an excellent knowledge of the wind factor. Even a good steady breeze seriously affects bullet trajectory, and at 500M, that effect is huge.

Red, you're promoting complete satire pages again!

The problem with letting rip with a firearm in a crowded area is the chances of hitting someone innocent is very high - either from richochet, or from the bullets passing through the thug, and hitting someone else, further on. In addition, the short barrelled firearms the Police are equipped with, are really only accurate to about 25-30 metres - and even then, the person firing the weapon must steady themselves to ensure even a modest level of accuracy. You'll note the terrorists used long-barrelled firearms and steadied themselves when firing - but even at that, they fired over 100 rounds, and hit only less than half that number of victims. We had 9mm handguns in the Army, and I can tell you this much, very few blokes could hit a hat with one at just 25 metres. Short barrels do nothing for accuracy, the Americans rely on lots of ammunition, in the hope they actually hit their target.