Absolutely, perhaps I have been naive, but I thought you needed a specific reason to own a shotgun, not simply to be over 18 and not have a criminal record.
Although this type of crime is very rare, there seems to be a gap in the shotgun licensing legislation which needs to be closed. There was no reason for this guy living in the suburbs with the job he had to have a gun and he should not have had one.
This is not the first case I have heard of where a shotgun licence has been removed and then returned and a murder or murders have occurred. There seems to be an issue with that system.
We must tighten the laws further if they allow people to have 365 days a year, 24 hours a day access to these weapons, and those people don’t need them for their jobs.
I thought the law was you had to have land where you could use it, it had to be relevant to your lifestyle/occupation and you had to pass stringent tests on suitability, plus you needed safe storage too.
I don’t see how he met this criteria aged 23, having spent his life in a specialist school for disturbed children, with his mother seeking mental health assistance, having had it removed for an assault, and with links to groups involved in mass shootings.