David Dunstan: A year on, so what’s happened?
David arrested the intruder (who was armed with a lump of wood and a knife), before handing him over to the police who were in the area, looking for him after an earlier report of an intruder by a neighbour.
All was good until the police turned up at David’s place the following day – to seize HIS guns – and then restrict his wife from being able to store guns at their home. The story got national and international coverage.
Oddly enough, no-one was helping David dealing with the police, so we decided to see if we could do something for him. A visit to David’s property and your donations helped us get the ball rolling, hiring him a lawyer with expertise in NSW firearm laws, who was able to do what he could to help. Not only that but our story was shared with over a quarter of a million people – such was the injustice that occurred.
Several letters and phone calls later, David got his guns back – but not until more than a month had passed.
At the time, NSW Deputy Premier, John Barilaro, flew down to see David before returning to Sydney and promising to refer the issue of gun laws in NSW to the Law and Safety Committee of Parliament. This, he did in November last year.
A year on from the event – and nearly 10 months after the referral – the committee is yet to even look at the matter. While that is frustrating, we understand that the current matter it is dealing with will wrap up in October, hopefully leading to a start around then.
We’ll keep you posted on what happens and what you can do – as the antis will obviously jump in to have their say as well – but we want to see something meaningful come out of this, because it’s an important issue for shooters in and outside NSW which needs to be resolved.
Stay tuned.