Gunning for common sense

August 26, 2026 — 11:55am“Musing on the publicity generated by the upcoming National Gun Buyback Scheme, I recall how many years ago when, as a family, we used to go camping and my husband, a born-and-bred city boy, decided we needed protection against potential intruders,” writes Coral Button of North Epping. “So he purchased an assemble-it-yourself rifle from Kmart. Yes, such items were available then. My mother, raised on a farm and herself a good shot, was vastly amused. ‘You might be able to hit something at 10 feet Phil’ was her comment, ‘Other than that you could always whack him over the head with it!’ It was never fired in anger, and we duly handed it in to John Howard’s gun buyback.”Kerrie Wehbe of Blacktown has definitely heard about the verb: “We Google things all the time, and