The Sports Bag(s) - The Other Reason ----

Evidence That Points To A Deception At Port Arthur -------------------- Email: editor@shootersnews.addr.com

On other webpages we have shown there were 2 sports bags taken into the Cafe and an attempt to hide the fact there were 2 during the incident on 28 April 1996 and afterwards by Tasmanian authorities including DPP Damien Bugg.

The OTHER REASON for this and the 2 bags was to hide the fact the long green sports bag contained 3 FIREARMS not 1 as was alleged.

The agenda being run in this whole massacre was to justify banning semi-auto firearms on the pretext their rapid fire could do damage and hence the widely bandied about claim of the gunman being 90 SECONDS in the Cafe was created. That the gunman fired 29 shots in 90 seconds - this was the theme of Bugg's claims.

This whole 90 second claim ( akin to the "magic bullet" theory invented when JFK was assassinated in Dallas Texas in 1963 to explain away the fact shots were coming from more than one rifle ) is about hiding the fact 3 guns were used in the Cafe by the gunman because if 3 were admitted to be used they couldn't have been used in 90 seconds

The long green sports bag was needed to be taken out of the Cafe back to the yellow Volvo for this other reason: - to conceal the 2 guns inside it ( the gunman carrying the 3rd gun as he left the Cafe ).

So we have this green bag being used firstly to conceal the blue bag being taken in the Cafe ( and of course all the firearms ), and secondly to conceal the other 2 guns being taken out of the Cafe.

The proof of the 3 guns and the falsity of the 90 seconds claim comes from witness statements.

Cafe witnesses say the gunman was in there shooting for 4 to 5 minutes and possibly up to 7 minutes. Click here to see witness statement at 3rd last paragraph.

Ex Army witnesses near the Cafe who had been in Vietnam who had to know the difference in sound between a .223 calibre rifle and a .30 calibre rifle to identify friendly or enemy fire immediately knew a .223 rifle ( the Colt rifle ) was being fired in the first volley of shots. But later after a few minutes of shooting the other witnesses like Collyer saw the .30 calibre SLR being used which the gunman walked out of the Cafe with. A third firearm - a Daewoo 12 gauge shotgun - was later found with a shell missing and one Cafe victim received shotgun pellet wounds.

When the gunman opened fire he commenced using the black .223 COLT carbine and then reverted to a .308 SLR rifle which had a brown wooden stock. At some point he fired the Daewoo shotgun. Just before he left the Cafe he placed the SLR back into the long green bag where the Daewoo was all the time and then placed the blue Prince bag on the table next to the video camera ( the cafe witness who saw him do it got shot dead for his trouble ) then the gunman left the Cafe with the COLT carbine so as to conceal the other two firearms from anyone watching outside. It was a clever plan but they've now been sprung.

The COLT was then used outside to shoot more people in the car park. Arriving at the Volvo the gunman put the COLT on the front seat and then placed the green bag in the boot of the Volvo and without anyone seeing he removed the SLR from the green bag and starting firing it. The Daewoo was left in the Volvo at the tollgate as it had served its purpose and would have been useless in any seige because of its patterning of shot and has a short range*.

These 3 guns were chosen because these are the 3 ( incorrectly sometimes refered to as "assault rifles" ) the trash behind this massacre wanted banned and they were prepared to shoot dead 35 people to get their own way.

You now understand why this long green bag ( over 4 feet long ) was taken in and then out and why they had to hide the fact it was.



*We believe the shotgun was to be used as a backup in case anyone rushed the gunman in the car park at close range as it is an ideal short range weapon but nobody did - hence it was only fired once in the whole incident.

Note:- Bugg told the Court at Martin Bryant's hearing " It is the Crown’s case that that bag that he then had with him contained the AR15 semi-automatic rifle and ammunition...." There was NO MENTION of the SLR being used in the Cafe. It was only mentioned as being used in the car park and at the tollbooth despite witnesses saying it was seen the in the cafe.

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