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!
Is the US any different? Many states ban so-called assault weapons based on looks, not function.
Maybe not different, but still less so, at least.....For the time being.
Headline should be: "Australia Bans Rifles That Frighten Police”
Now that they have a Muslim problem, you’d think the Australians would be re-thinking this hoplophobic nonsense.
Headline should be: “Australia Bans Rifles That Frighten Police”
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More like “Bans Rifles that Frighten Their Marxist Overlords”.
Bloody Diggers have been wandering around in the open sun again!
Are we to arrest people just because they resemble the perpetrator?
looks like a bolt action 22
Take ‘em outta the oven, they’re done.
Opinions Jane?
Maybe they should also ban muslims who who look like terrorists, terrorists who look like muslims, criminals who look like criminals, etc.
Just to provide some balance.
The RCMP up here tried the same thing with the Ruger 10/22 rifle magazine! They reclassified the non-restricted magazine because it *COULD* fit a pistol, This went against the actual wording of the regulation, but they did it anyway.
NEVER let regulations be enacted by anything other than a duly elected body, because committees WILL overstep their bounds. Every. Single. Time.
It’s summer dnunda .... it’s normal.
The 13 colonies forcibly repudiated the British rules.
The Aussies did not.
if any car ‘looks like another car that was ever used in a deadly crash’ that car shall from hence forth be banned because ‘logic’ dictates that items that merely look like other items that may or may not have be3n used in crimes, are dangerous!
They should ban Aussies that look like terrorist?
fact
We know several families with adult children, who have been living and working in OZ for years and some decades.
Many of those in OZ are selling their businesses or quitting jobs to return.
Why?
OZ is heading down the PC suicidal road that Britain has been on since the end of WWII.
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