Thread: Police doing a 3 yearly check of my safe for my E Endorsement?

Well said timattalon.

There are rotten eggs in every sector of society - but of all the police and arms officers I've met personally, they've been very pleasant people to deal with. Most of them actually went out of their way to work 'with' me, as opposed to against me. One negative perspective circling around online can sometimes come across louder than the praise sung by the majority out in the real world. We're all human at the end of the day - most policemen/women get into the force because they want to help people. Unfortunately (due to our sub-par legal system (in certain areas), there is undue stress placed on those enforcing these laws...

For those that have had sour dealings - that sucks. Guess it pays to be vigilant.

Originally Posted by Frodo

There are rotten eggs in every sector of society - but of all the police and arms officers I've met personally, they've been very pleasant people to deal with. Most of them actually went out of their way to work 'with' me, as opposed to against me. One negative perspective circling around online can sometimes come across louder than the praise sung by the majority out in the real world. We're all human at the end of the day - most policemen/women get into the force because they want to help people. Unfortunately (due to our sub-par legal system (in certain areas), there is undue stress placed on those enforcing these laws...

For those that have had sour dealings - that sucks. Guess it pays to be vigilant.

Same. I have found almost every cop I have ever met (former and current serving status) to be very reasonable people. Even on occasions when I have been pulled over, though there have not been many of these. In saying that I have never yelled at, threatened or generally behaved like an arsehole to them so I have not given them reason to do what they are required to for their chosen career. I also think they are badly let down by the judiciary when they do catch offenders, as well as their top brass grandstanding.

One reason I am against registration is that while I was living in Australia where full firearm registration is mandatory, there were numerous occurrences where within a short period, usually no more than 6 weeks after a firearms owner has been rechecked, generally with a full compliment of firearms, usually over 10 or so, they would be "targeted" and broken into and all guns stolen. And of course this always made the news and why would someone want so many, yada yada.
The memory banks are struggling to compute if there was ever a connection made between the police firearms licensing dept or not but it was inferred because of the timing and situations. The Australian police force and in particular QLD has a dubious reputation for corruption so it is extremely likely.
Never usually the single shotgun and rifle but more the guy who has either had some coin and bought quite a few in a short time, or the other chap who has slowly collected them. The small ones always happened I'm sure just wasn't newsworthy in the Australian anti firearm media.
The other reason of course is that if we get an extremely anti firearm govt and anything goes wrong we will have to deal with the same crap Aussie had with the buy back and because they would know what everyone has, you would have no choice but to hand it in.
What they don't acknowledge in OZ, is that while they did squash a lot, there was quite a few stashed and sold on the black market. Aussies still have the Ned Kelly attitude thing going on a little like the yanks and did not fully comply.