Well they failed miserably in the Herals Sun so now they will have a go in the Daily Telegraph?

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Trigger happy shooters' gun buying spree
by: Richard Noone From: The Daily Telegraph January 16, 2012 12:00AM

NSW is gun mad - and proud of it - with shooters stockpiling almost 100,000 new registered firearms in the past five years.

The number of gun licences, meanwhile, has only increased by about a fifth, or 18,852 over the same period, showing some are stocking up with numerous weapons.

There are now 763,359 registered firearms across the state, including 27,956 handguns, compared with 190,844 licences - taking the ratio to four guns for every licensed owner. In some country towns firearms outnumber people - in Ivanhoe, in the state's far west, 273 residents own 432 guns.

But licences are also set to explode, with nearly 2000 issued in the past month.

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