Gilboa Snake Rifle:

 It can only be a matter of time before our NZ Police 'Service' Management procure and start to issue these twin barreled black rifles to their unlicensed poorly trained constables ..

I truly hope that they don't - as it would only serve to make them even more dangerous to themselves and the public than they already are walking about with the single barrel - single round at a time editions.

These Israeli designed arms are basically two AR15 rifles melted together into one chassis to meet some weird military requirement .. this will undoubtedly make them attractive to our current power hungry Royalist Police Management who already have grenade launchers and sub-machine guns ready in their armories to load into their armored cars.

- Well you never know when next they will be called upon to escort our Prime Minister between airports or to deal with a stray new season's lamb on the highway.

With any luck .. the last sworn officer able to stagger from her H.Q. post - when most of us have succumbed to the dreaded Lurgy - will place the keys on the front desk and wedge open the doors as she leaves the fortress ..

I suppose the concept of  Democracy was ever 'aspirational' and theoretical at best - in much the same way as the ideas of 'Law & Order' or 'Social Welfare' .. or "care for the afflicted" might have been proposed by the occasional dreamer.

I used to be hopeful of  "things improving" as our elected administrators worked through the various issues that smell of unfairness & corruption - but they seem mostly to refine the rules permitting the neglect and theft that enhance life for the privileged - while widening poverty of the less able.

Have a Good Christmas everyone,

Marty K.