Re:Lawful reason (Score 1)

I have a 200mW laser as well as a 5mW laser and I live in Australia -- I am all for this ban. Why? The 200mW laser is extremely powerful -- we did a test of it and it to see how far it travelled. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgSYCY1rxnk As seen in the above video, I am holding my phone while recording (hence the poor quality) but the laser is being shone ~5km away. When you get eye contact directly with the beam (FIVE KILOMETRES AWAY) it still hurts your eyes and you can't see anything else for that moment. Planes coming in to land are not 5km away -- they're only a few hundred metres -- take that, with trying to land the plane, while being blinded. Because laser pointers are the size of pens, it's far too easy to point it at a plane to distract / disorient the pilot, then run off without getting caught. That's why this ban has been put in place, they cannot police the current batch of lasers, so what else are the police supposed to do besides a blanket ban?