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A FARMER appears to be a step closer to having his guns given back after confronting an armed intruder at his back door. David Dunstan took an unloaded rifle after noticing a man with a knife and piece of wood at the back door of his Bungowannah home a month ago. Police seized his firearms and his wife, Andrea, had special conditions imposed on her gun licence. Mrs Dunstan’s conditions were lifted on Monday, and the couple are hoping Mr Dunstan will have his firearms ban lifted later this week. “I feel like it’s a sensible decision that’s been made,” she said. The conditions had prevented her from having guns at the home, or any place her husband lived or frequented. “They’re implying David’s not a threat any longer, not that he ever was,” she said. Mrs Dunstan said she would apply to have her husband’s guns transferred into her name if they hadn’t had an update on his licence by the end of the week.

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