Bans on owning any sort of gun have been extended to more than 600 South Australians

Police say these people are too dangerous to even be allowed to own a gun; do you know them?

The list of South Australians too dangerous to own a firearm has ballooned to 613 after 52 criminals were added to the list in the past 12 months.

Officer in charge of the SAPOL firearms branch Superintendent Amit Sareen, said police had acted on their own powers to ban 39 of those on the list this year and the courts had imposed another 13 bans.

“There must be some level of elevated risk and aggravating circumstances before a firearm prohibition order is issued,’’ Supt Sareen said.

“The public interest provision requires consideration as to whether the intrusion into private liberties are outweighed by the public interest in issuing a FPO – that is a person’s wellbeing is factored into the assessment.

Many of the 52 men added to the list are connected to some of the most high-profile criminal cases over the last 12 months but many enjoy comparative obscurity.

High profile cases include alleged drug runner and Nomad bikie Dion Jay Madden, 41 and alleged Comanchero treasurer and drug trafficker Hayden Bubner, 35.

Ryan John Huie, 41, who with his granddad made a primitive single-shot pistol out of a nail gun and Damien Keith Hall, 31, who with a fake gun was chased down by police on Hindley St, are also on the list.

The youngest on the list is Tyson Keith Patmore, aged 17 and the oldest Eugene Osenkowski, 77.

Osenkowski, a member of the Hells Angels, challenged SA’s anti-fortification laws in the Supreme Court. His home was heavily fortified, the property ringed by a steel cage and he had razor wire in the roof to stop entry.

The 613 identities compiled on the list date back to 2002, with names usually removed only when they die.

Supt Sareen said the list did not include people considered dangerous to themselves and therefore banned from having a firearm.

Not all those on the list have committed a crime but are considered a danger to the community with a gun.

Supt Sareen said under the Firearms Act 2015, those on the list were mainly there because ownership of a firearm by the person “would be likely to result in undue danger to life or property”.

But there was also a public interest test and the person banned could simply be “a member of, or a participant in, a criminal organisation” or “has been a member of an organisation that, at the time the order is issued, is a criminal organisation” or is the subject of a control order under the Serious and Organised Crime (Control) Act 2008.

More than 600 South Australians are now too dangerous to own a gun.

Supt Sareen also reminded South Australians The Firearms Act 2015 provided a general amnesty to allow anyone to surrender any unauthorised or unwanted firearm and ammunition to a police station or a participating licensed dealer.

“The aim of the general firearms amnesty is to make the community a safer place by removing unwanted, unregistered or illegal firearms, firearm parts, mechanisms, fittings, prohibited firearm accessories, sound moderators and ammunition from the community, making it harder for guns to fall into the wrong hands,’’ he said.

“They can hand these in without fear of prosecution.”