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The gun laws are pretty rediculous when fake fantasy guns that do not resemble any real guns, are prohibited.
1 posted on 04/18/2011 5:24:12 AM PDT by marktwain
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The white man is committing a slow suicide.


2 posted on 04/18/2011 5:27:40 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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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.


3 posted on 04/18/2011 5:29:02 AM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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Just goes to show its not the guns themselves they are after. They seek to control what people think.


4 posted on 04/18/2011 5:29:54 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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Some of them folk in Queensland be cross breeding with the roos.
5 posted on 04/18/2011 5:32:28 AM PDT by org.whodat
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Hmm...Need more info/pics.

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!”

6 posted on 04/18/2011 5:33:27 AM PDT by PissAndVinegar
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Replica guns that do not fire? And they are treating them as if they are ACTUAL guns?

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.

8 posted on 04/18/2011 5:36:01 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
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Of course, in "Aliens", the commanding officer orders the squad to remove their ammo in order to avoid firing the weapons and risk damage to the thermonuclear reactor (this turns out to have been a bad idea when the aliens attack a few minutes later).

As Pvt Hudson says, "What are we supposed to use? Harsh language??"

9 posted on 04/18/2011 5:40:37 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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—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-—


10 posted on 04/18/2011 5:41:09 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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"...that do not resemble any real guns..."

Well, in full disclosure, there actually is a guy who built his own 9mm/12 gauge 'pulse rifles'...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HufACX1GepM

12 posted on 04/18/2011 5:45:42 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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If we ever get invaded,we will have to throw rocks at the enemy!


13 posted on 04/18/2011 5:50:55 AM PDT by cavador ("Self determination is not a malfunction"!(Harkness;Fallout 3 Rivet City 2077))
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Soon to follow, a ban on Star Trek's PhaserI's:


15 posted on 04/18/2011 5:54:01 AM PDT by LRS ("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
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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.


16 posted on 04/18/2011 6:06:51 AM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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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. -——


18 posted on 04/18/2011 6:10:13 AM PDT by papertyger
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What is Australia like politically? I always thought it was fairly conservative as countries go.


19 posted on 04/18/2011 6:40:01 AM PDT by Celtic Cross (Some minds are like cement; thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
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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?


20 posted on 04/18/2011 6:48:01 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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They are not prohibited - the Customs officials thought they might be, and directed him to get an opinion from the police. The police they are Category R firearms (in other words, they are considered realistic enough that somebody might genuinely believe them to be a weapon rather than a toy). Perfectly legal to own provided he has a Category R licence - in this case, the best one for him to get would be a Firearms Collectors licence. That would cost him $80 to apply for, and $12 a year to maintain. Provided he doesn’t have a criminal record, he should have no difficulty in getting such a licence.

Whether he should have to is another question, but that’s the situation as it is. Customs tried to categorise then as prohibited - police disagree but are treating them as replicas because they are not obviously toys.


23 posted on 04/18/2011 4:40:46 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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As real as its gonna get...youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am76xV8Aubk


29 posted on 04/18/2011 8:45:06 PM PDT by Redcitizen (In case of economic breakdown, make sure you have a case of Snickers candy bars.)
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