Posted on 01/07/2018 8:23:12 AM PST by Simon Green
“The Firearms Act prohibits people owning firearms that ‘substantially duplicate’ the appearance of high-powered automatic weapons like machine guns and self-loading rifles used by the military,” dailytelegraph.com.au reports. Yup. If a rifle looks like an “assault rifle” — such as the gun above — it falls afoul of Australia’s Firearms Act. How stupid is that? Check this out....
Firearms manufacturer Michael Burrough said he has faced problems from the NSW Firearms Registry, which is part of the NSW Police Force, over the gun stocks his business produces.
His “tactical stocks” are black and aluminium, rather than the traditional wooden-type.
When attached to a rifle, the registry believes it falls foul of the appearance laws because it duplicates a military-style firearm, even though the gun’s firing speed is unchanged, he said.
Trying to steer clear of the concerns over weapons with a military appearance
Mr Burrough said a rifle coloured black which had been fitted with a custom stock and chassis — the body of the rifle — had been rejected by the registry. He then painted the gun red, white and blue, asking if it still appeared like a military weapon, but said it was again prohibited.
Red, white and blue? Someone invite that man to The Land of the Free (excluding New Jersey, New York, Maryland and a couple of other states)! Meanwhile, the cops aren’t bothered by Mr. Burrough’s bitching.
Some senior police are unapologetic, claiming a weapon pimped to look like a high-powered assault rifle [ED: pimped I tell you!] still appeared so similar to the real thing they couldn’t be told apart to the untrained eye or from a distance . . .
“There are no plans to make further changes to firearms laws,” a spokesman said.
Bloody ripper!
“NEVER let regulations be enacted by anything other than a duly elected body, because committees WILL overstep their bounds. Every. Single. Time.”
Amen, tyranny often starts at the lower levels with bureaucrats enacting laws that infringe on our freedmen.
A classic example is how our DOJ/FBI/CIA/IRS/ATF has seized power and rules over us as bureaucrats not as elected people during Bush2 and Obama.
I had that exact Tommygun when I was a kid. The Mattel Tommy Burst.
Also, I had another Tommygun that was black with a drum magazine, don’t remember who made it... Remco, maybe??? Orange tip. The drum was the sound chamber.
Here’s a picture of it:
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/toy-tommy-gun
Very first pic.
Headline should be: “Australia Bans Rifles That Frighten Police and scares the Jihadists in Oz!”
Headline should be: “Australia Bans Rifles That Frighten Police and scares the Jihadists in Oz!”
Bans Rifles that Frighten Their Marxist Overlords
Not to worry they’re using trucks knives and acid
So are they okay with a Ruger mini? It does not look like a scary gun.
You mean “frightens politicians”
Nope. Semiauto...banned.
Scary looking guns are a no-no.
Next they’ll be banning oil slicks that look like the Virgin (until Jesus’s birth) Mary.
But, that would be...profiling?
This just proves that Ausies are still Brits in the blood.
just read the same at Washington EXAMINER.
They are taking a poll. You can leave the page with all suggestions for gun control laws blank and it will accept it. You do have to leave an email address and your name.
You’ve got to think the way they think. The Stalinist overlords definitely know how to do psy-ops to get their sheep to be afraid of any (cool) scary gun if they are told it is scary. The overlords know the value of arms and will have their own army armed with those same scary looking guns even if they are water guns and know the sheep will run scared because they are un-armed.
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