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Posted on 10/25/2024 6:00:20 AM PDT by marktwain
On October 16, 2024, 9news.com.au in Australia published an article about police confiscation of 150 guns. Most of the guns were confiscated at what appears to be a gun shop in Liverpool, a suburb of Sidney. A man and a woman were arrested. Both were released. Later, the man was arrested again and charged. A man and a woman were arrested in Port Macquarie when a search of a property at Bobs Creek turned up two replica guns and several boxes of ammunition. From 9news.com:
Over 150 guns have been seized and three people have been charged after an investigation into fake firearm licences across New South Wales.
Police allege businesses based in Liverpool, in Sydney’s southwest, and Bobs Creek, south of Port Macquarie, had provided over 1000 people with fraudulent permission to shoot licences for a fee, which allowed them to obtain gun licences.
The majority of those people were from south-west Sydney, with some linked to organised crime.
Bobs Creek is a rural area about 15 miles (23 kilometers South of Port Macquarie.
In the current case, three people have been charged. All are out on bail. One is a 50-year-old firearms dealer from Sydney. He is charged with 17 counts of failing to keep labels and records and giving ammunition to a person not authorized to use it.
One is a 48-year-old woman from Port Macquarie. She is charged with 14 counts of making a false document for financial advantage.
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The charge for possessing replica guns is the same as for possessing real guns in New South Wales law.
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I assume replica means non-firing.
Not sure the draconian gun laws in Australia has anything to do with this.
The investigation revealed forged documents....if that’s the case they got what they deserved.
The investigation revealed forged documents....if that’s the case they got what they deserved.
If it wasn't required to have a "genuine reason" to possess a firearm, and if self defense was not eliminated as a "genuine reason", the alleged "fraudulent" documents would not be necessary.
The case seems to revolve around whether a person had the proper paperwork to qualify as a "property manager". If they did not meet the paperwork qualifications, the "permission to shoot" paperwork from them did not qualify, resulting in hundreds of applications for firearms licenses being disqualified.
In the 1930s Germany “Papers please” was the law. Now if you were a Jew I’m sure you wouldn’t want any forged documents saying you weren’t a Jew to avoid a concentration camp. You’d want to follow the law and get what you deserved.
Could ‘Replica’ be Black Powder?
The democRAT Party would love to bring that here ...
And then never issue licenses ...
The “forged documents” imply the requirement for documents ...
and there you have your draconian gun laws.
These are test runs for what they want to institute here.
No. Replica, in the NSW Australia law, essentially means: looks a lot like a real firearm, but cannot fire.
Here is an article about a man in NSW being arrested for having a foot long "replica" of an AR15.
Replica gun person arrested for in 2019, Australia
Tragic
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