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Tilly

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Dec 30, 2009, 2:09:38 PM12/30/09
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What on earth does a 70 year old pensioner want with 45 high-powered rifles
and shotguns as well as bags as ammunition? The weapons were found at an
Otahuhu property after police were called to a domestic incident about
9.30pm.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/3200441/Huge-arsenal-of-weapons-found

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retro

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Dec 30, 2009, 2:34:37 PM12/30/09
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> http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/3200441/Huge-arsenal-of-weapons...
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Good they got him before the 'domestic incident' turned to murder.
there was a doco on TV this year about how easy it is to buy guns in
NZ and the presenter visited some old geezer in Auckland who had a
huge arsenal of weapons and was really showing them off, I wonder if
it is the same geezer.

Brian Dooley

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Dec 31, 2009, 2:21:21 AM12/31/09
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:09:38 +1300, "Tilly" <paul...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/3200441/Huge-arsenal-of-weapons-found

In journalism, is there any other kind of rifle?

It's a Homeric epithet ie every time a rifle is referred to it
has to be high-powered cf the wine-dark sea of the Iliad.
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Gib Bogle

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Dec 31, 2009, 6:53:32 PM12/31/09
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He's probably a bit cracked.

Willy Nilly

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Jan 1, 2010, 1:34:16 PM1/1/10
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, "Tilly" <paul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>What on earth does a 70 year old pensioner want with 45 high-powered rifles
>and shotguns as well as bags as ammunition? The weapons were found at an
>Otahuhu property after police were called to a domestic incident about
>9.30pm.

Probably a weapons depot for the actual users.

willy


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Lyndon Watson

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Jan 1, 2010, 5:05:15 PM1/1/10
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On Dec 31 2009, 8:21 pm, Brian Dooley <bria...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:09:38 +1300, "Tilly" <paul1...@gmail.com>

> wrote:
>
> >What on earth does a 70 year old pensioner want with  45 high-powered rifles
> >and shotguns as well as bags as ammunition?/Huge-arsenal-of-weapons...

>
> In journalism, is there any other kind of rifle?
>
> It's a Homeric epithet ie every time a rifle is referred to it
> has to be high-powered cf the wine-dark sea of the Iliad.

Just as ever person who dies of cancer is reported to have "battled"
it, regardless of the facts. Perhaps Homer said that too.

LW

liberty

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Jan 1, 2010, 7:09:06 PM1/1/10
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SupergoofNZ

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Jan 1, 2010, 7:19:17 PM1/1/10
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Some people collect firearms as a hobby. My ex did, as did our flatmate
at the time - we had around 100 working firearms in the flat at one
stage, and the ammo to go with most of them (though most of them never
actually got used).

As long as you have a firearms licence, there's nothing illegal about it
provided they're stored correctly.


Rachel

hellicopter

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Jan 1, 2010, 8:43:10 PM1/1/10
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liberty wrote:

Private debt levels means nobody is safe. Defensive is
all the average capitalist can trust in.

We are living through bad times, the bad lands of
economic collapse, only the deluded depleted zombiotoid is
unshaken by the wealth of information pounding their
discredited weak fascism into dust.

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