Aussie Activists Target Author Of Popular Gun Blog

By Cam Edwards

Australia is the Promised Land for many American gun control activists. They heap praise on the country’s sweeping gun ban and confiscation, and to listen to them tell it, if the United States would only take the same steps to go gun-free, we could live in a public safety paradise. It’s rare, however, for those American activists to mention the gun control movement in Australia today for some reason. Maybe it’s because the number of guns in Australia is higher now than when the gun ban was instituted, which indicates that the gun ban didn’t destroy a lawful culture of gun ownership. Or maybe it’s because the gun control activists in Australia are so intolerant that they’re now going after a police officer for authoring a popular gun blog.

A popular Australian gun blog, Ozzie Reviews, which is frequently critical of firearms laws and posts far-right political content, is run by a serving Queensland police officer with formal permission from his superiors.

Police records obtained by Guardian Australia show the senior constable, Corrie Dixon, was given a $6,300 taxpayer grant to attend a specialist firearms training course …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms