Swimmers Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk have been ordered to remove Facebook photos of themselves posing with high powered guns … D'Arcy and Monk posed with the weapons in a gun shop in the US where the Australian swimming team has been training and competing before the Olympics start next month.

Gun Control Australia spokesman John Crook said it was a new low for the athletes … "It's a disgrace to the Olympic swimming team,'' Mr Crook said. "I doubt they have the moral sensitivity to be concerned about human suffering."

Controversial swimmers Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk could face sanctions from the Australian Olympic Committee after posting photos of themselves posing with high powered guns.

"We think it's foolish and inappropriate and we are awaiting an investigation by Swimming Australia. Then we'll look at it," AOC chef de mission for the Games Nick Green said last night. "This incident serves as a warning to all athletes on the 2012 team about the dangers of social media. "We say again to our athletes, do not put anything up on social media that you would not share with your mother or your grandmother.”

If medals were awarded for insensitivity and stupidity, the self-styled bad boys of the sport would be fighting each other for the top of the podium. Posing with high-powered weapons is beyond just childish. It is an affront to crime victims and breathtakingly crass nearing the 40th anniversary of the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.

Australian athletes are in trouble for being photographed with firearms Legal weapons in a legal shop. Unloaded. Not aimed at anybody. This, for some reason, is causing outrage The pair return to Australia today:They may be in breach of Australian Olympic Committee social media policy Are firearms something shameful to be concealed from mothers or grandmothers? Not in my family, where women know their way around guns and rifles. The outrage continues Two men stand with some weapons in California and it leads to Australia-wide gun panic. Evidently we’ve forgotten that Australia has a 17-member Olympic shooting squad. You want to see guns ? Just hit those links. At least none of them posed insensitively next to a swimming pool. After all, more people usually drown each year in Australia than die in shootings . UPDATE. Sanction her! (Via sdog