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Something special about the hunt

Happy snap: Ariel, out of hunting gear before she heads home again, with Mick. Capturing the moment on camera was secondary to the memory.

The object isn't always to put something on the ground. Sometimes that's secondary to the hunt, because hunting is many things. This hunt was about dad and daughter.

Death Raye and the fight for injustice

A post from Sylvia Raye's Facebook page.

"I will speak out for injustice, that's what I do," Sylvia Raye said. She also said it would be "a good idea" to shoot Robert Borsak in the spine and leave him to suffer.

Why shooters are painted as inhuman(e)

An Australian conservation hunter yesterday, according to the anti-gun lobby.

If we all become passive recipients of "what is good for us" at the hands of governments who are not our servants, but our masters, then we deserve all we get from them.

"I'm calling from the RSPCA"

The RSPCA's "knowledge base" is full of anti-hunting statements.

The young bloke on the phone was chirpy: “I’m calling from the RSPCA,” he said. “Have you heard of what we do?” I certainly had.

UN Arms Trade Treaty: What now?

The global disarmament of civilian shooters just took a huge leap closer to reality in the adoption of the UN's Arms Trade Treaty. Or did it?

Death threats and personal attacks: antis losing the plot

This sign was hung on the front gate of a man who has led a campaign against Greens hypocrisy.

When something is backed into a corner and losing, it gets nasty and will fight hard. That's why the anti-hunt mob is getting vicious, truly vicious.

Greens: shooters don't deserve democracy

You and I are among the disgruntled few, and should have less than one sixtieth of the political power of a duck lover – if we deserve any place in democracy at all. We should have no representation.

It's the end of the world and we're motivated!

Now's not the time to be snoozing while hunting and shooting are under such vociferous attack by antis.

Rick Mazza, of the Shooters and Fishers Party in WA, sums it up beautifully: "Unreasoned and senseless restrictions being forced on responsible participants in outdoors activities have motivated us."

Academics, guns, and the silencing of debate

Academics, guns, and the silencing of debate: musings from a gun-owning researcher in a 'liberal science institution'.

Elitist hunters will shoot your sheep

Jim Pirie on the 7.30 Report: "They'll shoot your sheep."

Who needs enemies when you have friends like shooter, hunter, hunting club president and firearm dealer Jim Pirie, who says hunters are coming to shoot farmers' sheep?

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Contentious microstamping law enacted

Microstamping imprints data identifying the make, model and serial number of the gun that fired the round.

California has become the first place in the world where firearms must be fitted with highly controversial technology that stamps their serial number into every cartridge they fire.