Police have added 131 people to the list of South Australians who are banned from owning guns to “protect the community”.
The additions to the firearms prohibition order list in the past 12 months takes the total number of banned people in SA to 514.
The bans mean hundreds of individuals – from those who have accidentally shot friends to acquitted terrorism suspects – must now stay well away from firearms for the safety of the public.
In the past 12 months, police deemed only four people were reformed enough to be removed from the list.
The numbers added to the list are rapidly escalating, from 52 in 2015, 98 in 2019 up to 131 in the past 12 months.
Of those 131, 88 were added by police and 43 by the courts.
Police can decide without referral to courts that someone should not be allowed to own a gun. Many of those considered too dangerous are bikies, with the display of an insignia enough proof that they are members of a banned organisation.
You can download full list here: https://www.police.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/2598/Register-FPO-Public-13.07.2020.pdf
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Eric Silbermann for biker-news.com, based on The Advertiser‘s story