Australia AUSTRALIA - 4YO AUGUST (GUS) Missing from rural family home in Outback, Yunta, South Australia, 27th Sept 2025

[Warshawski]

I have been around guns for quite a while, both as shooter and observer on large properties in different states of Australia. I've never seen a shooter or a farmer use a silencer, but that's not to say it doesn't happen.

I can see the reason for it, if you're shooting at a mob of feral pests such as pigs, goats etc, a silencer might stop them from scattering immediately. You could eliminate more of them at once.

Silencers don’t actually ‘silence’ the shot though, it just lowers it so it’s not as ‘deafening’ . .. and possibly would lower the distance from which it could be heard. eg. from neighbouring property etc.

MOO

 

[Warshawski]

Very normal to obtain legal representation to act on your behalf,legally, as per our rights we don’t have to comment or speak to police beyond confirming our id, and every lawyer would encourage you to invoke this right

100%
At the same we would have be careful not to obstruct the police / the investigation

 

[BreakingNews]

Every so often it helps to switch your assumptions or give them a little shake up Like many (most?) people, I assumed the first person who withdrew cooperation was Josie - but what if it was Shannon. The discrepancies might have been in her story of the day’s timings. Then, while at the police station, a chat with Josie revealed to her that the police knew certain things and that she, by continuing to cooperate, could give them info that could either get Shannon in trouble or herself or the both of them. Maybe a line of questioning became uncomfortable. So Josie too withdrew cooperation?

I’m not saying that’s what I believe happened, just giving assumptions a shake to create other thoughts

All speculation and MOO.

As ive said before, both lawyered up. Their lawyers would have told them to say nothing. You dont lawyer up, then talk. Nothing sinister about it. That's their right in Australia.

 

[RobinCAL]

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