Retailer defends sale of pepper spray for self-defence
It is better to allow people to take pepper spray than a fiery weapon seller that irritates the eye than to carry the oven cleaner, wild bee spray or screwdriver.
In the early hours of Sunday, during a nightclub fight in Darwin, the use of OC Spray asked questions about public sales in the northern region.
Police arrested a 26 -year -old woman who allegedly sprayed another woman with a tin box that was legally obtained during a fight in Mayberry nightclub.
A week ago, a 16 -year -old child was allegedly attacked with a spray obtained illegally after the entrance was rejected.
The two events follow the beginning of September of a 12 -month hearing, allowing to sell public pepper gas in certain NT firearms retailers.
Western Australia is the only Australian judicial authority to allow the general sale of the weapon.
Ronald Voukolos, the manager of Fisheries and Outdoor World in the center of Darwin, said that people who purchase the spray should sign a statement where they are not prohibited to meet and buy strict requirements.
He told AAP in a gun counter.
Mr. Voukolos said he was in a hurry to buy the spray when he was on sale on September 1, and that buyers were equally divided between men and women around 47 years old.
He continued: “A lot of unwanted a lot of unwanted and you could not say they were trying to buy.”
Mr. Voukolos said that he recently learned that OC Spray has been on sale in WA for more than 20 years and he did not know a bad story about his use.
Voukolos said, “What impresses me in my talking to people is what they armed – the wild bee spray, the oven cleaner, the rexona and the screwdriver.” He said.
“These are the ladies to walk, they need to take such things.”
OC spray sales said that the critics put more weapons in the community, but Mr. Voukolos said alternative weapons were already there.
Oc spray gave people something controlled, dedi he said.
“With OC spray, you prefer to spray more than the baking cleaner.
“Otherwise, someone who is a citizen who meets the law, protects themselves and uses the oven cleaner and permanently damages the vision of someone, will have much more problems than the person who will make them wrong.”
Mr. Voukolos said that firearms did not earn much money from OC spray sales of firearms retailers, and that the buyers were a “quite pleasant surprise” with a price of $ 40 for a 30 -gram bottle.
He continued: “It gives the chance to protect themselves or buy some time without using anything that is considered a forbidden weapon.”
