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Chapman, Simon. 1998 ‘The Main Reforms.’ Over Our Dead Bodies: Port Arthur and Australia's Fight for Gun Control; Chapter 4, pp. 72-96. Sydney: Pluto Press, Sydney University Press. 9 January

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Greg Carlsson, spokesperson for the Association of Professional Shooters (APS), told the media that semi-automatics were favoured by incompetent amateurs:

"The basic people who own semi-automatic firearms come from the city and are more interested in blowing away anything that moves … The common terminology out here for them are weekend shooters - that's when we are being nice about them."(1)

A professional kangaroo shooter in western Queensland with 22 years experience, Carlsson said semi-automatics were "too inaccurate to be humane".

Source cited:
1) Collins C. 'Single-shot Greg takes aim at the semi-automatics lobby', The Australian, May 11, 1996.

ID: Q15556

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