There were cheers and tears from parents at Wollongong City Council chambers last night after administrators voted to reject a controversial gun shop proposal near a Fairy Meadow primary school.It took less than a minute for administrators to make their decision, but it was enough for parents, who were all smiles outside the council chambers.In the wake of the decision, the woman who spearheaded efforts to oppose the proposal thanked an unlikely group - the sacked councillors."We have to be grateful to our 13 councillors who had the courage to say no," said mother-of-three Margherita Pierro.Ms Pierro was in the gallery last December when councillors went against the advice of planners and risked court action to unanimously reject the gun shop proposal.Ms Pierro hopes this second rejection will signal an end to the saga, but said along the way she has learned there were no guarantees."Nothing is a foregone conclusion," she said.Applicant Anthony Dal Pozzo said he was considering challenging the council in court."We are certainly looking into it," he said.He believes the administrators based their decision on emotion rather than fact and said questions remained as to why council officers last year recommended the proposal be approved and now recommended it be rejected."Someone is incompetent as far as I'm concerned and it's either the first lot or the second lot."More than 40 parents and children from St John Vianney's Primary School waved placards at last night's meeting, but administrators said they needed little convincing after inspecting the site."We did not believe that the location adjacent to a school was appropriate. We believe it is better located in an industrial area," administrator Gabrielle Kibble said.She said the council would fight the issue if it went to court. "The applicant will have the right to go the Land and Environment Court and we will defend that matter if it does," she said.Mrs Kibble said applicants should never make assumptions about the outcome of their proposals."There are no absolute rights to any applicant to get something."