For everyone's info, I have just posted this on the "Australian Firearms Discussion Forum", thought you folks would like to know.
DON’T USE K-MART STORES
From the Arms Collectors Guild of Queensland Journal of June 2003 comes the following story:
“One member has recounted the dangers of having photographic prints processed at the Chermside K Mart (and presumably at any K Mart). The processing people passed to the police a set of prints featuring firearms all lined up to have their pictures taken. The upshot was a raid on the member’s residence by carloads of police from the Major Crime Unit armed with a search warrant and lots of other things. Nothing untoward found as all items were duly licenced. I hope you have all absorbed the contents of this object little object lesson. It could happen to anyone in these paranoid times. Be alert for sure, and perhaps a little alarmed”
Where do these paranoid new age McCarthyists get off. This person photographed his legally owned personal property and then paid K Mart to develop the prints. K Mart responded by forwarding copies of the prints to the local Major Crime Unit, who presumably didn’t even check whether the photographed articles were legally owned before launching a “raid” on a domestic home. Someone’s paranoia has resulted in unnecessary trauma being faced by a fellow collector. Do these brain-dead idiots honestly believe someone who owned arms illegally would photograph them and take the films to K Mart for processing.
I believe all firearm owners and shooting sports organisations in this country should respond to this unnecessary and unprovoked attack on a fellow gun owner by not shopping at K Mart. I no longer care that the sell plenty of fishing and camping gear, I will be taking my business elsewhere.
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