Posted on 04/18/2011 5:24:02 AM PDT by marktwain
THEY were used to destroy some the meanest baddies in Hollywood history but Queensland police have now deemed them to be real weapons and illegal to boot.
A movie buff who imported three model guns based on those wielded by Ripley in Aliens has found himself tied up in red tape when customs officers claimed they were prohibited weapons.
In the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal, member Peta Stilgoe expressed understanding about collector Mark Hamish Beckett's frustration with bureaucracy, but found she did not have the authority to rule on his case.
Ms Stilgoe was asked to settle the question QCAT hearing on the papers.
The tribunal heard Mr Beckett purchased three model guns, replicated from the 1986 movie Aliens, and when two of the guns arrived in Queensland Australian Customs issued a seizure notice stating the guns were prohibited items.
Customs then notified Mr Beckett that to enable the release of the guns he needed "written confirmation in the form of a police permit from the Queensland police before the goods could be issued".
Mr Beckett made the application but Queensland police told him they believed the guns were category R weapons and he needed a permit to acquire them.
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The white man is committing a slow suicide.
Yep, be a good sheep and follow that goat right up the chute. I’d think there must be a few Aussies who still recall what freedom of Australia once meant.
Just goes to show its not the guns themselves they are after. They seek to control what people think.
Wonder if they are these:
http://www.tk560.com/m41a.html
“Some sci-fi props are cool, some are neat, and some are just plain corny. To qualify for cool, the prop has to strike a special nerve for me. The M41-A Pulse Rifle is such a prop. As seen in the 1986 movie “Aliens”, this prop became an instant classic. With is fully functional hero models that fired 45 cal. blanks, and blank 12 guage shot gun rounds, to the ultra-slick O.D. green shrounds, this prop is the rare weapon that seemed it could actually do what it appeared to do in the movie! Shoot! This ain't no raygun, baby!”
Could be their moms were dingo’s.
This is what a culture committing the murder of REASON looks like. A complete rejection of logic in the pursuit of a self destructive ideology.
As Pvt Hudson says, "What are we supposed to use? Harsh language??"
—stuff such as this always brings to mind the additon of bright red plastic trigger locks to the muskets on the full-sized reproduction of the Massachusetts coat of arms some years ago , in the state capitol,IIRC-—
(just to keep the guns lubricated)
Well, in full disclosure, there actually is a guy who built his own 9mm/12 gauge 'pulse rifles'...
If we ever get invaded,we will have to throw rocks at the enemy!
I have always been of the mindset that if it is time to bury them, then it is probably past due time to put them to use.
Some limp wristed customs “officer” probably peed himself when he opened the box and though the toys were real. Now his daddy is punishing the owner of the toys for making the little poof cry.
“I say we pull out and nuke ‘em from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
Lenina Huxley: [A]nything not good for you is bad, hence, illegal. Alcohol, caffeine, contact sports, meat . . .
John Spartan: Are you sh**ing me?
A computer: John Spartan, you are fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality statute.
John Spartan: What the Hell is that?
A computer: John Spartan, you are fined one credit . . .
Lenina Huxley: Bad language, child play, gasoline, uneducational toys, and anything spicy. Abortion is also illegal. But, then again so is pregnancy, if you don’t have a license. -——
What is Australia like politically? I always thought it was fairly conservative as countries go.
What if I built one out of paper well enough to look like the real thing and carried it down the street in some Australian city? Be thrown in jail for brandishing a fake firearm?
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