Posted on 02/23/2019 5:13:15 AM PST by marktwain
On February 9th, 2019, Australian police officers swarmed a man walking along a busy, coastal, pedestrian walkway in Brighton, Australia. Police took down the man because of reports that he was armed with a rifle.
In a video from 7 News Adelaide, you can see the toy gun next to a female officer's boot. Use the tiles/bricks the officer is standing on for scale. Video link on facebook.com:
The toy appears to be about a foot long, less than one/third scale. No reasonable person could mistake it for an actual, functioning rifle.
Brighton is an upscale, urban, coastal suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria.
It is illegal in Victoria to own a replica or imitation firearm without a firearms license.
The following information is from the Victorian police website. The last update is given as 18 May, 2018. From police.vic.gov.au:
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Brain surgeons trying to justify their job .
Shakedown, breakdown, takedown....
Ping
“No reasonable person could mistake it for an actual, functioning rifle.”
They’re copy they have no ability to think on their own.
At the beginning of last summer, I read an article about some poor schlep in Australia who was caught with 2 high power sniper rifles and over 10,000 rounds of ammunition. He got 10 years for the illegal firearms that turned out to be Crosman Benjamin pellet rifles and 20 tins of pellets (500 pellets per tin).
So this take down does not surprise me.
“No reasonable person could mistake it for an actual, functioning rifle.”
They’re cops they have no ability to think on their own.
At the beginning of last summer, I read an article about some poor schlep in Australia who was caught with 2 high power sniper rifles and over 10,000 rounds of ammunition. He got 10 years for the illegal firearms that turned out to be Crosman Benjamin pellet rifles and 20 tins of pellets (500 pellets per tin).
So this take down does not surprise me.
Fantasizing about having a gun should be a capital offense
Coming to your state soon.
Screw the law that says this is just a toy! If the police want to beat someone up for having one then they must be right...thin blue line, right?
soon to be illegal
Would not have happened if the toy gun carrying criminal was an Assyrian wearing a taqiyah or a women in a burqa.
Can’t even shoot his eye out with it.
When did Australia become the land of pussies?What has become of the people that populated a land both beautiful and deadly?
“When did Australia become the land of pussies?What has become of the people that populated a land both beautiful and deadly?”
When the people allowed their government t disarm them. ‘Like in Venezuela, the UK, etc.
It’s what’s known as a
“Squirt Gun.”
The headline doesn’t scream “ toy ASSAULT rifle”?
This young lady is quite outspoken and intelligent. Pretty, too. Oh, she's a millennial.
Give a few of her videos a listen, she is quite entertaining while making her point.
An American Liberal’s Wet Dream come to fruition.
Welcome to the Socialist State of Victoria.
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