Owen Guns, Gympie, Australia.

Send a Submission Against the New Gun Laws.

Ron Owen — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:52:49 +0000

This Legislation Removes Your Rights, It Imposes Further Restrictions, on All Shooters, Collectors, Shooting Clubs, Dealers and Armourers. No one escapes even people who do not own a firearm. Please Read this impending Firearm Legislation Now. It Affects Purchase, Licences, Costs, Participation, Security, Search without warrant, It makes Parts and Magazines registered items. This will close many Gun Shops.

Help Stop Tyranny Now.

This Legislation produces a hunting ground for the Queensland Police to prey and harass, RSL Clubs, Historical Societies (Museums) that display valuable collectors items in glass cases, that already comply with security measurer’s in place for their collectors licences. That already have to render these artifacts temporary inoperable. The new act ensures they have the relevance of a boat anchor, yet still locked in a steel safe in a security room.

The hunting ground also includes Target Shooters, of all classes, Collectors, Firearm Dealers, Armours, Re-en actors, Security Guards, Theatrical suppliers, and Farmers.

All the law abiding citizens of Queensland who have the misfortune to be involved with the Weapons Act. The Firearms Act of 1979 had 29 pages and it was not replaced until the Weapons Act of 1990, if this is passed into law it will encompass 642 pages of the Act and Regulations and this interlinks with the Police Power and (No) Responsibilities Act and the Police Services Act and the Explosive Act, an all encompassing nightmare of innuendo and nit picking power trips for the Queensland Police.

The ‘authorised officer’ is given more power than a South American Tin Pot Dictator, he ‘decides’, when he is ‘satisfied’, leads to miss uses of power that the Fitzgerald Commission was supposed to remedy. In 1901 in Australia’s first parliament Sir William Mc Millan crossed the floor to vote with Labour on the White Australia Bill, not because he or Labour opposed the ‘The White Australia Bill but because as Mc Millan put it, “Established power by interpretation to alter the substance of legislation…”, as it “produced bad law and faulty administration”.
The people vote politicians into power and expect them to do the job and not delegate the power to a policeman. The enforcer. It is contrary to all tenets of the separation of power. If parliament wishes to remove our rights, it has to do it certainly not just leave us at the mercy of a policeman’s conscience.

This legislation will have the Police targeting the Law Abiding, (historically the most qualified, the best behaved section of our community, who lose everything if they have a conviction for anything) while taking the work pressure off all the Criminal elements in our society. This legislation will turn more guns into scrap than efforts of that evil gnome, ‘John Howard’. This time we pay dearly not Medibank, we pay the Queensland Police to do it to us.

For years Firearm Owners have been baited and trapped like the ‘Jews of Europe’, just waiting for the QPS ‘stormtroopers’, to pound on the door at 5 am in the morning, now we wait for them to introduce their ‘Final Solution’ which is our eradication.

If you do not want to feel like grounded fly waiting for the Mortien Spray, or a sheep in the Abattoir race, or a Jew waiting for the Final Solution get a bit of back bone and do something. Now.

Please click on the links and download the Draft Act and Draft Regulations and read them both pick out the sections that you disagree with and include (cut and paste ) a copy with your explanation in your submission sending it to the Queensland Police Minister, or every Queensland State politician, just click the links or send to every State Minister or every Shadow Minister. If you can use a computer to send an email you can do something to stop this tyranny.

Public submissions close September 14. 2010. So do it now.

Please write and email, use the power of the computer to send your personal letter to the politicians, use the links below to send to as many Queensland politicians as possible.

Weapons Act Review Secretariat: Click here to e-mail the Weapons Act Review Secretariat

Weapons Secretariat Postal Address
The Secretariat
Weapons Act Review
Level 2, Tourism House
30 Makerston Street
GPO Box 1440
BRISBANE QLD 4001

Make sure you always include your name and address. That way you will be taken seriously.

QLD Gov Ministers: Click here to e-mail all Gov Ministers

QLD Shadow Gov Ministers: Click here to e-mail all Shadow Gov Ministers

Draft of the Weapons Bill 2010 ( 879 KB) and the Draft Weapons Regulation 2010 ( 891 KB)

It does not affect the Police and it does not affect the Crims, only You the Firearm Owner will be the VICTIMS.

If you don’t want to read the above Draft Legislation just cut and paste from the excerpts below and send your offence as a submission.

The Daft Act 2010

ammunition see the Explosives Act 1999 , schedule 2.

The Objects to Limit Law Abiding Shooters.

2 Categorising weapons

Prescribing categories of weapons, and things to be within a

particular category of weapon.

3 Limiting or prohibiting licensing of particular weapons

Limiting or prohibiting licensing of particular weapons or

particular types or categories of weapons.

4 Limiting or prohibiting acquisition, possession or use of

weapons and regulated items

Limiting or prohibiting the acquisition, possession or use of

particular weapons or regulated items or particular types or

categories of weapons or regulated items.

5 Limiting or prohibiting activities involving weapons

Limiting or prohibiting particular activities involving

weapons or particular types or categories of weapons.

7 Category D weapons

(1) Each of the following is a category D weapon—

(a) a self-loading centre-fire rifle;

(b) a firearm that substantially duplicates a self-loading

centre-fire rifle in appearance, design or function;

than 5 rounds;

(d) a pump action shotgun with a magazine capacity of

more than 5 rounds;

(e) a self-loading rim-fire rifle with a magazine capacity of

more than 10 rounds.

(2) Subsection (1) applies to a weapon mentioned in the

subsection even if the weapon is permanently deactivated.

(3) A major component part of a weapon mentioned in subsection

(1) is a category D weapon.

(4) An imitation of a weapon mentioned in subsection (1) is a

category D weapon.

284 Declaration of weapons category by commissioner

(1) The commissioner may, by gazette notice, declare a

dangerous thing that is not categorised in the Weapons

Categories Regulation 2010 to be within a particular category

of weapon.

(2) In deciding whether to make a declaration under subsection

(1), the commissioner must have regard to—

(a) whether the thing has been designed for military

purposes; and

(b) the category of weapon the thing most closely

resembles; and

(3) A declaration under subsection (1)—

(a) takes effect on the day (the day of effect) that is 3 days

after the day it is published in the gazette or on the later

day stated in the declaration; and

(b) ends on the day that is 6 months after the day of effect;

and

subject of a previous declaration under this section.

(4) The commissioner must notify each person, whom the

commissioner is aware is in possession of a thing to which a

declaration under subsection (1) applies, of the declaration.

(5) If the commissioner declares a thing to be within a particular

category of weapon under subsection (1), the thing is, for the

purposes of this Act, taken to be within that category only.

(6) In any proceeding for an offence under this Act in relation to a

thing that is declared under subsection (1) to be within a

particular category, it is a defence to a charge in relation to

possession of a thing as being of a particular category that the

person has not been notified by the commissioner under

subsection (4) of the declaration.

Chapter 9 Miscellaneous

Part 2 Declarations, statements and exclusion notices

Page 221

(7) No compensation is payable by the State because of a

declaration under this section.

(8) In this section—

dangerous thing means—

(a) a firearm; or

(b) a thing ordinarily described as a weapon that is capable

of causing death or injury.

POWER OF Search

The Daft Bill

Page 296

Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000

1 Sections 25(1), 714(1)(a) and 715(a), ‘Weapons Act

1990’—

omit, insert—

‘Weapons Act 2010’.

2 Section 159(c), 4th dot point, after ‘1990’—

insert—

‘or Weapons Act 2010’.

To page 302.

“Which then gives the power.”

Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000

Chapter 2 General enforcement powers

Part 1 Entry, inquiries and inspection

22 Power to enter etc. for relevant laws

(1) For ensuring compliance with a relevant law, a police officer

may do any of the following—

(a) at any reasonable time, enter and stay on a place used

for a purpose under a licence under the relevant law;

(b) inspect, photograph or copy a prescribed item there or at

a place with appropriate facilities for photographing or

copying the item;

thing is evidence of the commission of an offence

against the relevant law or another Act;

(d) require a licence holder or someone else apparently in

possession of prescribed items to produce stated

prescribed items for inspection;

(e) inspect security measures a person must maintain under

the relevant law;

(f) require a licence holder or person apparently in

possession or in charge of the place to give to the police

officer reasonable help to do something mentioned in

paragraph (b) or (e).

(2) A police officer may enter a part of a place not used for the

purpose for which entry is made, but only to get to the place

used for the purpose.

relevant law, means an Act under which a person or place

must be licensed, and prescribed under a regulation for

chapter 2, part 1.

159 Application of pt 2

This part applies only in relation to the following offences (a

part 2 offence)—

(a) an indictable offence;

(b) an offence involving gaming or betting;

• Confiscation Act

• Explosives Act 1999

• Nature Conservation Act 1992

• Weapons Act 1990;

(d) an offence against the Liquor Act 1992, section 168B or

168C.

25 Power to demand production of licence etc. for weapons

(1) This section applies if a person is required under the Weapons

Act 1990—

(a) to be the holder of a licence or permit to acquire under

that Act; or

(b) to have the approval of any person; or

30 Prescribed circumstances for searching persons without

warrant

The prescribed circumstances for searching a person without a

warrant are as follows—

(a) the person has something that may be—

(i) a weapon, knife or explosive the person may not

lawfully possess,

32 Prescribed circumstances for searching vehicle without

warrant

The prescribed circumstances for searching a vehicle without

a warrant are that there is something in the vehicle that—

may be a weapon or explosive a person may not lawfully

possess,

Security Over Kill

165 Secure storage facilities at safe storage address

(1) The entity must—

(a) store the weapon unloaded in secure storage facilities

for the weapon at the safe storage address for the

weapon; and

(b) if the weapon is stored in secure storage facilities

mentioned in section 162, paragraph (b) or

(c)(i)—ensure the weapon is temporarily deactivated;

166 Container in locked room

(1) If the entity is unable to comply with section 165, the entity

must—

(a) store the weapon unloaded and temporarily deactivated

in a securely closed container; and

(b) take reasonable precautions to ensure the weapon is not

accessible to persons who are not lawfully authorised to

possess the weapon.

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units or 2 years

imprisonment.

13 When a firearm is temporarily deactivated

(1) A firearm is temporarily deactivated if it is modified in the

way prescribed under a regulation to make it temporarily

incapable of being discharged.

(2) A regulation made under subsection (1) may prescribe a way

approved by an authorised officer.

167 Vehicle

(1) If the entity is unable to comply with section 165 and section

166, the entity must store the weapon unloaded and

temporarily deactivated—

(a) in the locked boot of a vehicle; or

(b) in a locked metal container fixed to a vehicle; or

vehicle.

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units or 2 years

imprisonment.

(2) The metal container mentioned in subsection (1)(b), and

anything on or attached to it, must not suggest a weapon is

inside.

171 Particular parts of firearms

(1) This part applies to an entity that possesses a prescribed part

of a firearm if—

(a) for an entity that is an individual—the prescribed part of

the firearm is not in the physical possession of the

individual; or

(b) for an entity that is a body—the prescribed part of the

firearm is not in the physical possession of the body’s

representative.

(2) The entity must take reasonable precautions to ensure the

prescribed part is not accessible to persons who are not

lawfully authorised to possess the prescribed part.

Examples of taking reasonable precautions——

• placing the prescribed part in a locked container

• placing the prescribed part in a locked room

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units

(3) In this section—

prescribed part, of a firearm, means the barrel, or breech

block or bolt, of the firearm that is not part of a complete

firearm.

7 Meaning of category of weapon

(1) A category of weapon is a category of weapon prescribed

under a regulation.

Note—

See the Weapons Categories Regulation 2010.

(2) A regulation may prescribe a particular firearm to be within a

category of weapon.

Note—

The category of weapon within which a particular firearm is prescribed

impacts on, for example, the type of licence that may be held for the

firearm, the storage obligations under chapter 5 for the firearm, and the

penalty under section 178 for unlawful possession of the firearm.

169 Multiple weapons

(1) This section applies to an entity that possesses a weapon at a

place where there are more than 30 weapons, whether or not

the entity possesses each or any of the other weapons, if—

(a) for an entity that is an individual—the weapon is not in

the physical possession of the individual; or

(b) for an entity that is a body—the weapon is not in the

physical possession of the body’s representative.

(2) The entity must—

(a) store the weapon unloaded and temporarily deactivated

in a secure storeroom or a secure vault; and

(b) take reasonable precautions to ensure the weapon is not

accessible to persons who are not lawfully authorised to

possess the weapon.

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units or 2 years

imprisonment.

Part 3 Verification of particulars

157 Production of weapon to establish or verify particulars of

weapon

(1) This section applies to a person in possession of a weapon.

(2) A member of the police service may require the person to

produce the weapon to an authorised officer at a stated time

and place to establish or verify any of the following

particulars of the weapon—

(a) the action, calibre, category, make, model or type of the

weapon;

11 Meaning of imitation

(1) An imitation, of a weapon, is a thing that—

(a) is a reasonable copy of the weapon; and

(b) is not capable of causing death or injury by discharging

a projectile, or a thing mentioned in section 8(1)(b)(ii);

and

Note—

A regulation made under section 6(1)(b) may prescribe an imitation of a

weapon to be within a category of weapon. An imitation of a category

A, B, C or M weapon is a regulated item—see section 240(c).

(2) An imitation, of a crossbow, longbow or spear gun, is a thing

that—

(a) is a reasonable copy of a crossbow, longbow or spear

gun; and

(b) is not capable of causing death or injury by discharging

a projectile, or a thing mentioned in section 8(1)(b)(ii);

and

379 Registration of antique handguns

(1) This section applies if, at the commencement, a person

possesses an antique handgun.

(2) For the purposes of section 244 of the new Act, the person is

taken to have acquired the antique handgun on the day of the

commencement.

380 Registration of permanently deactivated category A, B or

C weapons

(1) This section applies if, at the commencement, a person

possesses a permanently deactivated category A, B or C

weapon.

(2) For the purposes of section 253 of the new Act, the person is

taken to have acquired the permanently deactivated category

A, B or C weapon on the day of the commencement.

Schedule 2 Subject matter for regulations

section 325

1 Authorising things under licence or permit

Providing for things that the holder of a licence or permit, or

any other person, including, for example, an unlicensed

person, may or may not do under the authority of a licence or

permit.

NO APPEAL To Magistrates Court.

Tribunal has no Rule of evidence, no judge, no discovery , Very little area able to review.

Chapter 8 Reviews

279 Who may apply for review

(1) A person whose interests are affected by a reviewable

decision may apply, as provided under the QCAT Act, to

QCAT for a review of the decision.

(2) For this section, a person who has been given or is entitled to

be given a QCAT information notice about a decision is taken

to be a person whose interests are affected by the decision.

(3) In this section—

reviewable decision means—

(a) a decision mentioned in schedule 1; or

(b) a decision prescribed under a regulation for the purpose

of this paragraph.

280 Stay of operation of decision

(1) An application to QCAT for a review of a decision does not

stay the decision.

(2) However, the applicant may apply, as provided under the

QCAT Act, to QCAT for a stay of the decision if, and only

if—

(a) the applicant is unable to satisfy an occupational

requirement because of the decision; or

(b) the applicant is unable to conduct a business because of

the decision.

(3) QCAT may grant the stay on conditions it considers

appropriate.

(4) An application to QCAT for a review of a decision affects the

decision, or carrying out of a decision, only if the decision is

stayed

Schedule 1 Reviewable decisions

section 279(1)

Section Description of decision

Licences

33 refusal to issue licence

37 refusal to renew licence

55 refusal to approve transfer of weapon to another licence

61 refusal to amend licence

62 decision to amend licence

65 decision to suspend licence

66 decision to cancel licence

85 decision to give notice to dispose

87 refusal to replace licence

Permits

104 refusal to issue permit

107 refusal to renew permit

131 refusal to amend permit

132 decision to amend permit

135 decision to suspend permit

136 decision to cancel permit

144 refusal to replace permit

Disguised Category??????

178 Unlawful possession of weapon prohibited

(1) A person must not unlawfully possess a weapon.

Examples of lawful possession of a weapon—

• possession under a licence

• possession by a person to whom this Act does not apply under

section 15

• possession by a person under an exemption granted under section

• possession by an unlicensed person under division 2

Maximum penalty—

(a) for an excluded person—

(i) if the person unlawfully possesses 10 or more

weapons at least 5 of which are category D, E, H or

R weapons—15 years imprisonment; or

(ii) if subparagraph (i) does not apply and the person

unlawfully possesses 10 or more weapons—600

penalty units or 12 years imprisonment; or

(iii) if subparagraphs (i) and (ii) do not apply—

(A) for a category D, H or R weapon—400

penalty units or 9 years imprisonment; or

(B) for a category C or E weapon—300 penalty

units or 6 years imprisonment; or

uncategorised firearm—200 penalty units or

4 years imprisonment; or

(b) otherwise—

(i) if the person unlawfully possesses 10 or more

weapons at least 5 of which are category D, E, H or

R weapons—13 years imprisonment; or

(ii) if subparagraph (i) does not apply and the person

unlawfully possesses 10 or more weapons—500

penalty units or 10 years imprisonment; or

(iii) if subparagraphs (i) and (ii) do not apply—

(A) for a category D, H or R weapon—300

penalty units or 7 years imprisonment; or

(B) for a category C or E weapon—200 penalty

units or 4 years imprisonment; or

uncategorised firearm—100 penalty units or

2 years imprisonment.

(2) For subsection (1), a person who possesses a disguised

category A weapon or a disguised category B weapon is taken

to possess a category H weapon.

(3) If the maximum penalty otherwise applying for an offence

against subsection (1) would be that mentioned in paragraph

(a)(iii) or (b)(iii) of the penalty (the relevant provision), and

the weapon is an imitation of a weapon, a permanently

deactivated firearm or an heirloom weapon, the maximum

penalty for the offence is half of the maximum penalty

mentioned in the relevant provision.

(4) A court, in sentencing a person convicted of an offence

against subsection (1), may take into consideration whether

the person stored the weapon in secure storage facilities for

the weapon.

(5) In this section—

179 Effect of licensee’s failure to enter particulars in register

(1) This section applies to a licensee who is required, under this

Act, to keep a register in relation to weapons.

(2) If the licensee, without reasonable excuse, possesses a

weapon the prescribed particulars of which have not been

entered in the register as required under this Act, the licensee

is taken to unlawfully possess the weapon and may be

prosecuted and punished under section 178 for the possession.

Possession

180 Possession by licensee of unregistered firearm, prescribed part or conversion unit prohibited

(1) A licensee must not possess a firearm unless the firearm is a

registered weapon.

Maximum penalty—120 penalty units.

(2) A licensee must not possess a prescribed part of a firearm

unless the prescribed part is, or is part of, a registered weapon.

Maximum penalty—120 penalty units.

(3) A licensee must not possess a conversion unit unless the

conversion unit is a registered weapon.

Maximum penalty—120 penalty units.

(4) A licensed dealer or licensed armourer does not contravene

subsection (1), (2) or (3) if the firearm, prescribed part or

conversion unit is entered in a register kept by the dealer or

armourer as required under a regulation.

(5) In subsection (1), the reference to firearm does not include a

reference to a major component part of a firearm.

(6) In this section—

(a) means a thing mentioned in the Weapons Categories

Regulation 2010, section 4(4), 5(4) or 9(5); and

(b) includes part of a thing mentioned in paragraph (a).

Part 4 Offences involving the acquisition and disposal of weapons

Division 1 Acquisition and disposal

192 Definition for div 1

In this part—

weapon, if the weapon is a firearm, does not include a major

component part of the firearm, other than the action, body,

frame or receiver of the firearm.

Notes—

1 The barrel, breech block or bolt, or top slide of a firearm is not a

weapon for the purpose of this division.

2 Under section 6(1)(b) and the Weapons Categories Regulation

2010, sections 4(4), 5(4) and 9(5), a conversion unit for a category

A, B or H weapon is also a weapon.

171 Particular parts of firearms

(1) This part applies to an entity that possesses a prescribed part

of a firearm if—

(a) for an entity that is an individual—the prescribed part of

the firearm is not in the physical possession of the

individual; or

(b) for an entity that is a body—the prescribed part of the

firearm is not in the physical possession of the body’s

representative.

(2) The entity must take reasonable precautions to ensure the

prescribed part is not accessible to persons who are not

lawfully authorised to possess the prescribed part.

Examples of taking reasonable precautions——

• placing the prescribed part in a locked container

• placing the prescribed part in a locked room

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units

(3) In this section—

prescribed part, of a firearm, means the barrel, or breech

block or bolt, of the firearm that is not part of a complete

firearm.

207 Licensed armourer must employ qualified weapons

employee

A licensed armourer must not employ a person who, in the

course of the person’s employment, will have access to a

weapon unless the person is a qualified weapons employee.

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

Regulated items

Part 1 Preliminary

239 Purpose of ch 7

The purpose of this chapter is to improve public and

individual safety in relation to regulated items by—

(a) requiring the registration of particular regulated items;

and

(b) prohibiting or limiting the acquisition and possession of

regulated items; and

handling of regulated items; and

(d) prohibiting the unlawful supply of, or trafficking in,

regulated items.

240 Meaning of regulated item

A regulated item is—

(a) an antique handgun; or

(b) a permanently deactivated category A, B or C weapon;

(d) an adjustable stock; or

(e) a detachable magazine; or

(f) a laser pointer; or

(g) a restricted article.

6 Shooting associations

295 Notice of expelled members

(1) A shooting association must give an authorised officer a

notice stating—

(a) when a member of the association is expelled from the

association;

(b) the name and licence number, if any, of the member; and

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(2) The notice mentioned in subsection (1) must be given to an

authorised officer within 14 days after the day the member is

expelled.

(3) This section applies despite any duty of confidentiality owed

by the shooting association, or a representative of the shooting

association, or a member of the governing body of the

shooting association, to the member.

(4) The giving of information by the shooting association under

this section does not give rise to any criminal or civil action or

remedy against the shooting association, or a representative of

the shooting association, or a member of the governing body

of the shooting association.

296 Request for information about members

(1) An authorised officer may, by notice given to a shooting

association, request the association to give the authorised

officer the following information—

(a) whether a particular person is or was a member of the

association;

(b) the particulars of a person who holds or held a particular

stated position within the association.

Excerpts from The Daft Regulation,

Secure safes

10 Safes

(1) The safe must be in a room of a permanent building.

(2) The room must always be locked (other than the time

necessary to have the room open for a proper purpose).

(3) The safe must be made of steel and—

(a) weigh at least 150kg; or

(b) be fixed to the permanent building by welding or

hardened steel bolts of at least 10mm in diameter

Schedule 6.

handgun shooting competition

handgun shooting competition means a national or

international shooting competition, that includes using a

prescribed category H weapon, at a place where the sport of

target shooting using a category H weapon is lawfully

authorised to take place.

(2) However, if the licensee’s genuine reason for possession of

the weapon is to engage in the sport of target shooting as

mentioned in section 45(1)(c)(iii), and the licence authorises

the licensee to possess and use a high calibre pistol, the

licence only authorises the licensee to possess and use a high

calibre pistol to engage in accredited events.

competitions, conducted on different days, during the

period mentioned in paragraph (b).

(2) Also, if the weapon is a high calibre pistol, the authorised

officer may issue the concealable firearms licence only if the

authorised officer is satisfied that the club mentioned in

subsection (1)(a) takes part in, or is affiliated with a body that

takes part in, accredited events.

57 Condition—membership of primary target shooting club

(1) It is a condition of the concealable firearms licence that the

licensee must be a member of the licensee’s primary target

shooting club.

( IS THIS PUT IN BY QAPSA)

58 Condition—membership of shooting association

(1) This section applies if—

(a) the holder of a concealable firearms licence participates

in a handgun shooting competition; and

(b) the participation requirements of the competition

require that a participant in the competition be a

member of a particular shooting association.

(2) It is a condition of the concealable firearms licence that the

licensee must be a member of that shooting association at the

time of participating in the competition.

279 Affiliation with shooting association

It is a condition of a target shooting club permit that the body

that is the holder of the permit must be affiliated with a

shooting association.

44 Things authorised by licence

(1) A concealable firearms licence authorises the licensee—

(a) if the licensee’s genuine reason for possession of the

weapon is a need mentioned in section 45(1)(c)(i) or

(ii)—to possess and use a category H weapon, of a type

or class stated on the licence, in the number stated on the

licence, to satisfy the need for which the licence was

issued; or

(b) if the licensee’s genuine reason for possession of the

weapon is to engage in the sport of target shooting as

mentioned in section 45(1)(c)(iii)—to possess and use

any prescribed category H weapon of a type or class

stated on the licence to engage in the sport of target

shooting at any place where the sport of target shooting

using prescribed category H weapons is lawfully

authorised to take place.

(2) However, if the licensee’s genuine reason for possession of

the weapon is to engage in the sport of target shooting as

mentioned in section 45(1)(c)(iii), and the licence authorises

the licensee to possess and use a high calibre pistol, the

licence only authorises the licensee to possess and use a high

calibre pistol to engage in accredited events.

(3) To remove any doubt, it is declared that a concealable firearms

licence does not authorise the licensee to possess or use a

weapon—

(a) for recreational shooting; or

(b) to engage in military simulation games.

Decide Means ?? Satisfied means??

47 Restrictions on issue

(1) The authorised officer may issue the concealable firearms

licence only if the authorised officer is satisfied that—

(a) the need can not be satisfied in another way; and

(b) the stated rural land is suitable for the use of the weapon

to satisfy the need; and

exceptional circumstances; and

(d) using the weapon on the stated rural land to satisfy the

need will not adversely affect public or individual

safety.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1)(a), in deciding whether or not

the need can be satisfied in another way, the authorised officer

must consider whether the need can be satisfied—

(a) in a way that does not require the applicant to possess a

weapon; or

(b) in a way that requires the applicant to possess a different

type or category of weapon.

54 Restrictions on issue

(1) The authorised officer may issue the concealable firearms

licence only if the authorised officer is satisfied that the

applicant—

(a) is a member of an approved target shooting club that is

authorised to conduct the sport of target shooting using

prescribed category H weapons; and

(b) has been a member of the club for at least 6 months

immediately before making the application; and

competitions, conducted on different days, during the

period mentioned in paragraph (b).

(2) Also, if the weapon is a high calibre pistol, the authorised

officer may issue the concealable firearms licence only if the

authorised officer is satisfied that the club mentioned in

subsection (1)(a) takes part in, or is affiliated with a body that

takes part in, accredited events.

(3) This section is in addition to section 45.

60 Condition—prohibition of particular magazines

(1) It is a condition of the concealable firearms licence that the

licensee must not possess a detachable high-capacity

magazine that is able to be used in a category H weapon.

(2) In this section—

detachable high-capacity magazine—

(a) means a detachable magazine with a capacity of more

than 10 rounds; and

(b) includes part of a detachable magazine mentioned in

paragraph (a).

77 Condition—single business

It is a condition of a dealer’s licence that only the licensee

may conduct a business at the licensee’s business premises.

Example—

A licensed dealer may not share the licensee’s business premises with

another dealer.

What happens about holidays or off sick????

78 Condition—active conduct of business

(1) It is a condition of a dealer’s licence that the licensee must

actively conduct the business of dealer.

(2) A licensee is taken to have contravened the condition

mentioned in subsection (1) if the licensee does not, under

section 74, make an entry in the licensee’s transactions

(3) An authorised officer may extend the period mentioned in

subsection (2) if—

(a) the licensee applies to the authorised officer for an

extension before the end of the period mentioned in

subsection (2); and

(b) the authorised officer is satisfied there are exceptional

circumstances.

80 Condition—weapons must be labelled

(1) It is a condition of a dealer’s licence that the licensee must fix

a label, as provided under this section, to each weapon

possessed under the licence at the licensee’s business

premises.

(2) The label must—

(a) show a number that is capable of being used to identify

the record of any transaction involving the weapon that

is recorded in the licensee’s transactions register; and

(b) be fixed to the weapon or within 1 day after the weapon

is first possessed at the licensee’s business premises.

(3) If the weapon is in a box or other packaging, the label may be

fixed to the box or packaging.

(4) In this section—

weapon includes—

(a) an antique handgun; and

(b) a permanently deactivated category A, B or C weapon.

81 Condition—weapons must be able to be immediately

located

(1) It is a condition of a dealer’s licence that the licensee must

have a method for immediately locating—

(a) each weapon that is possessed under the licence at the

licensee’s business premises; and

(b) each entry made in the dealer’s transactions register

about a particular weapon.

(2) The method may include, for example, electronic records and

the labels mentioned in section 80.

(3) The method must be sufficient to enable the licensee, upon the

request of an authorised officer—

(a) to immediately produce to the officer a particular

weapon possessed under the licence at the licensee’s

business premises; and

(b) to immediately show the officer each entry made in the

dealer’s transactions register about a particular weapon.

(4) In this section—

weapon includes—

(a) an antique handgun; and

(b) a permanently deactivated category A, B or C weapon.

28 Condition—weapons must be able to be immediately

located

(1) It is a condition of an armourer’s licence that the licensee must

have a method for immediately locating—

(a) each weapon that is possessed under the licence at the

licensee’s business premises; and

(b) each entry made in the armourer’s transactions register

about a particular weapon.

(2) The method may include, for example, electronic records and

the labels mentioned in section 27.

(3) The method must be sufficient to enable the licensee, upon the

request of an authorised officer—

(a) to immediately produce to the officer a particular

weapon possessed under the licence at the licensee’s

business premises; and

(b) to immediately show the officer each entry made in the

armourer’s transactions register about a particular

weapon.

(4) In this section—

weapon includes—

(a) an antique handgun; and

(b) a permanently deactivated category A, B or C weapon.

(All Major Component Parts are defined as firearms so we must immediately produce a missing bolt or a missing magazine, or lose our licence.)

85 Restrictions on issue—generally

An authorised officer may issue a firearms licence only—

(a) for a category A, B, C or D weapon (the weapon); and

(b) to an adult (the applicant); and

genuine reason for possession of the weapon is—

(i) a need to possess or use a category A or B weapon,

for an occupational rural purpose, in the conduct of

the applicant’s business or employment on stated

rural land; or

(ii) a need to possess or use a category C weapon, for

an occupational rural purpose, in the conduct of the

applicant’s business or employment on stated rural

land; or

(iii) a need to possess or use a category D weapon

87 Restrictions on issue

(1) The authorised officer may issue the firearms licence only if

the authorised officer is satisfied that—

(a) the need can not be satisfied in another way; and

(b) the stated rural land is suitable for the use of the weapon

to satisfy the need; and

exceptional circumstances; and

(d) using the weapon on the stated rural land to satisfy the

need will not adversely affect public or individual

safety.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1)(a), in deciding whether or not

the need can be satisfied in another way, the authorised officer

must consider whether the need can be satisfied—

(a) in a way that does not require the applicant to possess a

weapon; or

(b) in a way that requires the applicant to possess a different

type or category of weapon.

(3) This section is in addition to section 85.

88 Additional information to accompany application

The application for the issue, or renewal, of the firearms

licence must be accompanied by—

(a) enough information about the need to possess the

weapon for the occupational rural purpose mentioned in

section 85(c)(i) to enable an authorised officer to decide

whether the need can be satisfied in another way; and

(b) enough information about the stated rural land to enable

an authorised officer to decide—

(i) whether the land is suitable for the use of the

weapon to satisfy the need mentioned in section

85(c)(i); and

(ii) whether using the weapon on the land to satisfy the

need will adversely affect public or individual

safety.

90 Restrictions on issue

(1) The authorised officer may issue the firearms licence only if

the authorised officer is satisfied that—

(a) the need can not be satisfied in another way; and

(3) Also, the authorised officer may issue the firearms licence for

more than 1 category C weapon only if the authorised officer

is satisfied that—

(a) the applicant has a need for more than 1 category C

weapon; and

(b) the need can not be satisfied in another way; and

category C weapon to satisfy the need; and

(d) using more than 1 category C weapon on the stated rural

land to satisfy the need will not adversely affect public

or individual safety.

106 Additional information to accompany application

The application for the issue, or renewal, of the firearms

licence must be accompanied by—

(a) 1 of the following—

(i) evidence of the applicant’s ownership of the stated

rural land;

(ii) written permission from the owner of the stated

rural land authorising the applicant to engage in

recreational shooting using category A or B

weapons on the land;

(iii) evidence of the applicant’s current membership of

a club mentioned in section 105(1)(a)(iii); and

(b) enough information about the location, area and

surrounding features of the stated rural land to enable an

authorised officer to decide—

(i) whether the land is suitable for the use of the

weapon to engage in recreational shooting; and

(ii) whether using the weapon on the land to engage in

recreational shooting will adversely affect public

or individual safety.

108 Restrictions on issue

(1) The authorised officer may issue the firearms licence only if

the authorised officer is satisfied that the applicant is a

member of—

(a) an approved target shooting club that is authorised to

conduct the sport of target shooting using category A or

B weapons; or

(b) a shooting association.

(2) This section is in addition to section 85.

110 Condition—membership of primary target shooting club

(1) It is a condition of the firearms licence that the licensee must

be a member of the licensee’s primary target shooting club.

(2) The licensee may change the licensee’s primary target

shooting club at any time by becoming a member of another

approved target shooting club that is authorised to conduct the

sport of target shooting using category A or B weapons, or

another shooting association (the new primary target

shooting club).

(3) However, the change does not take effect until the licensee

gives to each of the following a notice in the approved form of

the change—

(a) the new primary target shooting club;

(b) the previous primary target shooting club;

(c) an authorised officer.

113 Restrictions on issue

(1) The authorised officer may issue the firearms licence only if

the authorised officer is satisfied that—

(a) the applicant is a member of an approved target shooting

club that takes part in, or is affiliated with a body that

takes part in, clay target shooting competitions; and

(b) the applicant, because of a lack of strength or dexterity,

has a physical need for a category C shotgun to enable

the applicant to take part in the sport of target shooting.

(2) This section is in addition to section 85.

116 Condition—participation requirement

(1) This section applies if the licensee is the registered possessor

of a category C shotgun.

(2) It is a condition (participation condition) of the firearms

licence that the licensee must use a category C shotgun to

participate in at least 4 shoots in each financial year.

(3) For subsection (2)—

(a) at least 2 of the shoots must be clay target shooting

competitions; and

(b) each of the shoots must be conducted on a different day.

(4) This section is subject to sections 117, 118 and 119.

117 Condition—participation requirement if licensee has

owned weapon for less than 12 months but not less than

3 months in a financial year

(1) This section applies if the licensee is the registered possessor

of a category C shotgun for less than 12 months but not less

than 3 months in a particular financial year.

(2) The participation condition applies proportionately, based on

whole calendar months, for that financial year, after rounding

down to the nearest whole number of shoots.

118 Condition—participation requirement if licensee has

owned weapon for less than 3 months in a financial year

(1) This section applies if the licensee is the registered possessor

of a category C shotgun for less than 3 months in a particular

financial year.

(2) The participation condition does not apply for that financial

year.

119 Condition—participation requirement if licensee is

unable to satisfy condition

(1) This section applies if, for a particular financial year, the

licensee satisfies an authorised officer that the licensee is, or

was, unable to comply with the participation condition for the

year for reasons outside the licensee’s control.

(2) The authorised officer

may decide the number of times, if any,

that the licensee must use, or was required to use, a category C

shotgun in a shoot for the particular year to satisfy the

participation condition.

(3) A decision under subsection (2) may be made on a

proportionate basis, based on whole calendar months, having

regard to the period that the authorised officer is satisfied the

licensee is, or was, unable to comply with the participation

condition for reasons outside the licensee’s control.

120 Condition—requirement to keep participation record

(1) It is a condition of the firearms licence that the licensee must

keep a record of the licensee’s participation in shoots

(participation record).

(2) The participation record must contain the following

information for each shoot—

(a) the date and place of the shoot;

(b) the types of events in which the licensee participated;

name and licence number of the range officer

supervising the shoot;

(d) if the shoot is conducted at a place other than an

approved range—the name and the firearms licence

number or driver licence number of the person

supervising the shoot.

Examples of places other than an approved range—

• a Commonwealth approved range

• an interstate range approved under the law of another State

(3) The licensee must enter the information in the licensee’s

participation record immediately after the licensee’s

participation in the shoot has ended.

121 Condition—requirement to have participation record

endorsed as correct

(1) It is a condition of the firearms licence that the licensee must

have an entry in the licensee’s participation record endorsed

as correct by—

(a) if the shoot is conducted at an approved range—the

range officer supervising the shoot; or

(b) if the shoot is conducted at a place other than an

approved range—the person supervising the shoot.

(2) The endorsement under subsection (1) must—

(a) be made on the day of the shoot before the shoot ends;

and

(b) clearly identify the person making the endorsement.

(3) An entry properly endorsed under this section is evidence of

the licensee’s participation in the shoot.

122 Condition—requirement to give completed participation

record to primary target shooting club

(1) It is a condition of the firearms licence that the licensee must

give to an authorised officer the licensee’s completed

participation record for a financial year within 28 days after

the start of the following financial year.

(2) In this section—

completed participation record means a participation record

that complies with sections 120 and 121.

124 Restrictions on issue

(1) The authorised officer may issue the firearms licence only if

the authorised officer is satisfied that—

(a) the applicant is a member of an approved weapons club

that is authorised to conduct military simulation games

using paint-pellet guns; or

(b) the applicant intends to use a category A paint-pellet

gun to engage in military simulation games.

(2) This section is in addition to section 85

128 Restrictions on issue

An authorised officer may issue a firearms instructor’s licence

only—

(a) for a category A, B, C, D, E, H or M weapon (the

weapon); and

(b) to an adult (the applicant); and

(i) the applicant’s genuine reason for possession of

the weapon is to give instruction for either or both

of the following—

(A) an approved safety training course (general)

provided by an approved training provider;

(B) an approved safety training course (security

guard) provided by an approved training

provider; and

(ii) the applicant has the necessary skills and

experience to give the instruction; and

(iii) giving the instruction will not adversely affect

public or individual safety.

129 Additional information to accompany application

An application for the issue, or renewal, of a firearms

instructor’s licence must be accompanied by—

(a) evidence that the applicant has the necessary skills and

experience to give instruction for the relevant course

mentioned in section 128(c)(i); and

(b) evidence that giving the instruction will not adversely

affect public or individual safety; and

Examples of evidence of necessary skills and experience—

• details of current licences

• details of completed training courses

• details of experience handling weapons

• details of experience giving instruction

provide the relevant course mentioned in section

128(c)(I).

131 Condition—regular instruction

(1) It is a condition of a firearms instructor’s licence that the

licensee must give regular instruction for a course mentioned

in section 128(c)(i).

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a licensee is taken to have

contravened the condition mentioned in subsection (1) if the

licensee does not, under section 130, make an entry in the

licensee’s training register for a continuous period of 12

months.

132 Definitions for div 9

In this division—

category A weapon does not include a disguised category A

weapon.

category B weapon does not include a disguised category B

weapon.

From Draft Weapons Act

Section 178 Unlawful possession of weapon prohibited

(2) For subsection (1), a person who possesses a disguised

category A weapon or a disguised category B weapon is taken

to possess a category H weapon.

Definition

disguised category A weapon means a weapon mentioned in

the Weapons Categories Regulation 2010, section 4(1) or (3)

that is disguised as a thing other than a weapon.

Example—

a shotgun or rim-fire rifle disguised as a walking cane or a poacher’s

stick

disguised category B weapon means a weapon mentioned in

the Weapons Categories Regulation 2010, section 5(1) or (3)

that is disguised as a thing other than a weapon.

Example—

a centre-fire rifle disguised as a walking cane or a poacher’s stick

134 Restrictions on issue—generally

An authorised officer may issue a group licence only—

(a) for a prescribed weapon (the weapon); and

(b) to an adult or a body (the applicant); and

(i) for an adult, or a body other than a body mentioned

in subparagraph (ii) or (iii)—the applicant’s

genuine reason for possession of the weapon is a

group need; or

135 Restrictions on issue—group need mentioned in s 132,

def group need, paragraph (a)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (vi)

(1) This section applies if the applicant’s genuine reason for

possession of the weapon is a need mentioned in section 132,

definition group need, paragraph (a)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (vi).

(2) The authorised officer may issue the group licence only if the

authorised officer is satisfied that—

(a) the need can not be satisfied in another way; and

(b) the stated land, area, place or vessel is suitable for the

use of the weapon to satisfy the need; and

vessel to satisfy the need will not adversely affect public

or individual safety.

(3) Without limiting subsection (2)(a), in deciding whether or not

the need can be satisfied in another way, the authorised officer

must consider whether the need can be satisfied—

(a) in a way that does not require the applicant to possess a

weapon; or

147 Restrictions on issue—generally

An authorised officer may issue a minor’s licence only—

(a) for a category A, B, C, or H weapon, or a category M

crossbow (the weapon); and

(b) to a minor who is at least 11 years (the applicant); and

genuine reason for possession of the weapon is—

149 Restrictions on issue

(1) The authorised officer may issue the minor’s licence only if

the authorised officer is satisfied that—

(a) the need can not be satisfied in another way; and

(b) the stated rural land is suitable for the use of the weapon

to satisfy the need; and

150 Additional information to accompany application

The application for the issue, or renewal, of the minor’s

licence must be accompanied by—

(a) enough information about the need to possess the

weapon for the occupational rural purpose mentioned in

section 147(c)(i) to enable an authorised officer to

decide whether the need can be satisfied in another way;

and

152 Restrictions on issue

(1) The authorised officer may issue the minor’s licence only if

the authorised officer is satisfied that—

(a) the need can not be satisfied in another way; and

(b) the stated rural land is suitable for the use of the weapon

to satisfy the need; and

(2) Without limiting subsection (1)(a), in deciding whether or not

the need can be satisfied in another way, the authorised officer

must consider whether the need can be satisfied—

(a) in a way that does not require the applicant to possess a

weapon; or

(John Howard’s Bullet Proof Vest)

179 Application of sdiv 2

This subdivision applies if—

(a) the application is for the issue, or renewal, of a

miscellaneous weapons licence for a category E

weapon; and

(b) the applicant’s genuine reason for possession of the

weapon is—

(i) a special occupational need for the weapon as

mentioned in section 178(c)(i)(A); or

(ii) an exceptional need for the weapon for

self-preservation as mentioned in section

178(c)(i)(B).

180 Restrictions on issue

(1) The authorised officer may issue the miscellaneous weapons

licence only if the authorised officer is satisfied that the need

can not be satisfied in another way.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), in deciding whether or not

the need can be satisfied in another way, the authorised officer

must consider whether the need can be satisfied in a way that

does not require the applicant to possess a category E weapon.

(3) This section is in addition to section 178.

181 Additional information to accompany application

The application for the issue, or renewal, of the miscellaneous

weapons licence must be accompanied by enough information

about the need for the weapon to enable an authorised officer

to decide whether the need can be satisfied in another way.

191 Application of sdiv 6

This subdivision applies if—

(a) the application is for the issue, or renewal, of a

miscellaneous weapons licence for a category M

crossbow; and

(b) the applicant’s genuine reason for possession of the

category M crossbow, under section 178(c)(ii)(D), is to

engage in the sport of target shooting.

192 Restrictions on issue

(1) The authorised officer may issue the licence only if the

authorised officer is satisfied that the applicant is—

(a) an approved target shooting club that is authorised to

conduct the sport of target shooting using category M

crossbows; or

217 Restrictions on issue

(1) An authorised officer may issue a theatrical ordnance

supplier’s licence only—

(a) for a prescribed weapon (the weapon); and

(b) to an adult or a body (the applicant); and

(i) the applicant’s genuine reason for possession of the

weapon is to conduct the business of theatrical

ordnance supplier; and

(ii) the business will be conducted in a way that will

not adversely affect public or individual safety; and

(iii) the premises from which the applicant will conduct

the business are suitable for conducting the

business of theatrical ordnance supplier; and

(iv) using the premises to conduct of the business of

theatrical ordnance supplier will not adversely

affect public or individual safety.

218 Additional information to accompany application

An application for the issue, or renewal, of a theatrical

ordnance supplier’s licence must be accompanied by—

(a) enough information about the business of theatrical

ordnance supplier to be conducted under the licence to

enable an authorised officer to decide whether the

business will be conducted in a way that adversely

affects public or individual safety; and

Examples of information about the business—

• business structure, for example, sole proprietorship,

partnership

• equipment to be used in the business

• intended client or market base

271 Condition—membership information

(1) It is a condition of a recreational shooting club permit that the

body that is the holder of the permit must give an authorised

officer a notice stating—

(a) when a member of the body stops being a member of the

body; or

(b) when a member of the body is expelled from the body

and the reason for the expulsion.

(2) The notice mentioned in subsection (1) must be given to the

authorised officer within 14 days after the day the member

stops being a member or is expelled.

(3) It is a condition of a recreational shooting club permit that the

body that is the holder of the permit must, upon the request of

an authorised officer, give the authorised officer a notice

stating whether a particular person is a member of the body or

holds a particular position within the body.

(4) The notice mentioned in subsection (3) must be given to the

authorised officer within a reasonable period, of at least 7

days, stated in the notice.

(5) An authorised officer may extend the period mentioned in

subsection (4) if—

(a) the body applies to the authorised officer for an

extension before the end of the period mentioned in

subsection (4); and

(b) the authorised officer is satisfied there are exceptional

circumstances.

272 Duties of body’s representative and members of

governing body

(1) This section applies to the body’s representative, and each

member of the governing body, of a body holding a

recreational shooting club permit.

(2) The person must take all reasonable steps to ensure the body,

its members and each person engaging in an activity

conducted by the body does not contravene a prescribed

provision.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the person has given notice

under section 139(3) of the Act stating that the authority of the

person has stopped.

(4) In this section—

prescribed provision means—

(a) chapter 6, part 1, division 1 of the Act; or

(b) chapter 6, part 3 of the Act; or

273 Duties of person engaging in club activity

A person engaging in an activity conducted by an approved

recreational shooting club—

(a) must not possess or use a weapon for the activity unless

the possession or use complies with the recreational

shooting club permit; and

(b) must not use a weapon for the activity in a way that is

likely to cause death or injury to a person or unlawful

destruction or damage to property; and

representative, or a member of the governing body, of

the body that holds the recreational shooting club

permit, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

281 Adequate supervision

(1) It is a condition of a target shooting club permit that the body

that is the holder of the permit must take reasonable steps to

ensure that each person using a prescribed weapon to engage

in the sport of target shooting conducted by the body is

adequately supervised by—

(a) a range officer appointed by the body under subsection

(2); or

(b) a range officer’s appointee appointed by the range

officer under subsection (2).

(2) A person appointed as a range officer or range officer’s

appointee must be—

(a) an adult; and

b) hold a licence, or an interstate licence, for a firearm; and

responsibility for the supervision of persons using a

prescribed weapon at the shooting range.

(3) In this section—

adequately supervise, persons engaging in the sport of target

shooting conducted by an approved target shooting club,

means take all reasonable steps to ensure the personal safety

of the persons and any other persons also engaging in the

sport of target shooting.

Subdivision 4 Duties

288 Body’s representative and members of governing body

(1) This section applies to the body’s representative, and each

member of the governing body, of a body holding a target

shooting club permit.

(2) The person must take all reasonable steps to ensure the body,

its members and each person engaging in an activity

conducted by the body does not contravene a prescribed

provision.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the person has given notice

under section 139(3) of the Act stating that the authority of the

person has stopped.

(4) In this section—

prescribed provision means—

325 Record of maintenance

(1) It is a condition of a shooting range permit that the holder

must keep a record of the maintenance carried out on the

safety infrastructure of the shooting range, as provided under

this section.

(2) The record of maintenance must state—

(a) the date the maintenance was carried out; and

(b) a brief description of the maintenance carried out.

(3) The holder must, before 31 August in each year, give a copy

of the record, to the extent that it relates to maintenance

carried out in the immediately preceding financial year, to an

authorised officer.

(4) An authorised officer may extend the time limit mentioned in

subsection (3) if the authorised officer is satisfied there are

exceptional circumstances.

(5) In this section—

safety infrastructure, of a shooting range, includes, for

example, the baffles, mound, stop butt and retaining walls of

the range.

326 Informing police officer of injury or damage

(1) It is a condition of a shooting range permit that the holder

must inform a police officer of any—

(a) injury to a person caused by a weapon used at the range;

(b) damage to property at or in the vicinity of the range

caused by a weapon used at the range, other than

damage to a target or a thing designed as a bullet barrier.

(2) The holder must inform the police officer of the matters

mentioned in subsection (1) immediately after the holder, or if

the holder is a body, the body’s representative, first becomes

aware, or suspects, that the injury or damage has happened.

Subdivision 3 Duties

327 Body’s representative and members of governing body

(1) This section applies to the body’s representative, and each

member of the governing body, of a body holding a shooting

range permit.

(2) The person must take all reasonable steps to ensure the body,

its members, and each person attending the approved range

does not contravene a prescribed provision.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the person has given notice

under section 139(3) of the Act stating that the authority of the

person has stopped.

(4) In this section—

prescribed provision means—

(a) chapter 6, part 1, division 1 of the Act; or

(b) chapter 6, part 3 of the Act; or

(d) section 328 or 329.

General

1 Methods

(1) A firearm may be modified to make it permanently incapable

of being discharged by—

(a) fusion welding under part 2; or

(b) sectioning under part 3.

(2) However, a firearm made of light alloy or plastic may only be

modified to make it permanently incapable of being

discharged by sectioning under part 3.

2 Purpose

(1) The purpose of fusion welding is to weld material into the

barrel of a firearm, and to weld all major parts of the firearm

in a way that can not be reversed.

(2) The purpose of sectioning is to machine or mill all major parts

of a firearm in a way that can not be reversed and to expose

the internal mechanism of the firearm to enable it to be used

for display or instructional purposes.

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Part 2 Fusion welding

3 Bolt action rifle

A bolt action rifle may be modified to make it permanently

incapable of being discharged by doing all of the following—

(a) boring a calibre size hole in the chamber;

(b) inserting a close fitting steel rod in the barrel and

welding at the muzzle and breech;

firing pin;

(d) welding the trigger to the receiver;

(e) welding the bolt to the receiver either—

(i) through the magazine well or the ejection port; or

(ii) along the exposed surface of the bolt for at least 80

per cent of the bolt’s length;

(f) cutting off the magazine lips and removing the spring

and follower;

(g) if the rifle has a quick detachable barrel—welding the

barrel to the receiver;

(h) if the rifle has a tube type magazine—cutting off the

crimped end of the guide, if any, and removing the

spring and follower.

7 Muzzle loading rifle

A muzzle loading rifle may be modified to make it

permanently incapable of being discharged by doing all of the

following—

(a) boring a calibre size hole in the chamber;

(b) inserting a close fitting steel rod in the barrel and

welding at the muzzle;

(d) welding the trigger to the receiver;

(e) welding the hammer to the receiver.

8 Single or double barrel shotgun

A single or double barrel shotgun may be modified to make it

permanently incapable of being discharged by doing all of the

following—

(a) boring a hole, approximately 60 per cent of the bore

size, just forward of the chamber (or chambers);

(b) inserting a close fitting steel plug of the length of the

chamber in the chamber (or chambers) and welding at

the breech;

firing pins, or welding them to the receiver;

(d) welding the trigger to the receiver;

(e) welding the breech lever to the receiver;

(f) welding the barrel or the barrel lug, with a substantial

weld, to the receiver to prevent the barrel opening;

(g) if the shotgun has exposed hammers—welding the

hammers to the side plates or the receiver.

Owen Guns Bulletin Edtion 43 August 2010

Ron Owen — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:27:49 +0000

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Norinco Model 213 ‘Tokargypt’ 9 shot Semi Auto

The Model 213 original basis was designed by John Moses Browning, the world famous firearm designer. In the late 1920s the Colt /Browning mechanism was redesigned by Russian, Feoder Tokerev, simplified for mass production and chambered in the powerful 7.62×25. It used the Mod 1911 swinging link, short recoil system.
To enable easy maintenance the hammer and lock mechanism can be removed as a single assemble. To improve the Browning feed system the ammunition feed lips are machined into the frame rather than relying on pressed tin. Which on a battlefield where magazines lips do not get the best attention is a great advantage in reliability and makes the magazines cheaper to produce. It was an extremely tough, reliable and powerful pistol and was later modified by Hungary for export to Egypt this was known as the Tokagypt. The pistol differs from the Tokarev in being chambered for the 9mm Parabellum, and a fitted safety catch (WHICH SHOULD NEVER BE RELIED UPON) as well as the half cock safety.

As can be seen by the inset photo the barrels and chambers are all chrome plated.It has a plastic wrap around grip stock, instead of the Tokerev ‘bakelite’ and a finger piece type floor plate on the magazine, which improves your chances of quickly getting it out and getting another one in after someone has rammed one in covered in mud. The M 213 Chinese version of this also has a chrome plated barrel shown in the above photograph. These are brand new unfired but have the usual scratch marks and rough corners as shown in the photographs. As standard the barrels are a millimetre short for club licences so are fitted with a slightly longer barrel. The steel is excellent and once a few surfaces, such as slides, are polished they are a slick an easy pointing pistol. Eight rounds in the magazine.

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Bushnell Compact Spotting Scope 12–36 x 50

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Armed Under & Over 12 gauge $775.

Armed 12 g Under & Over shotgun, single trigger, ejectors, five interchangable choke tubes the best value in a, new over and under on the market today. Truely a Turkish gun made with from Italian designs, a Turkish Delight with Italian good taste.

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Electronic Ear Muffs

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Hear normally up to 85 db Electronically reduces & protects hearing
Protects hearing above 85 db
Able to hear normal conversations and sounds to 85 decibels
Over 200 hours of battery life
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Solid state circuit
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HOW THE ELECTRONIC EAR MUFFS WORK
These electronic ear muffs are a high standard ear muff in design, they are made to feel light and comfortable for all day use. They can be used as standard ear muff when the electronic component is not turned on and will passively reduce noise like any normal ear muff. They have a standard noise reduction rating of 29 decibel and are a Class 5.
Once turned on the microphone, located at the top of the ear muff, will pick up and amplify ambient noise. If some one standing next to you talks, their voice will be amplified through the speakers in both ear muffs. Should there be a loud noise, such as a firearm, the electronic ear muffs will automatically cut out and block the loud noise. The electronic ear muffs are designed to attenuate noise about 85 decibels, meaning that they will block out instantly, once the noise reaches a certain level. The electronic ear muffs allow you to control the volume level of ambient noise around you. On the shooting range with constant loud reports, the electronic ear muffs will block this noise. For range instructions or to communicate with another person, you can instantly hear them speak.
At the range or anywhere ear protection is constantly required, but you also need to hear instructions from others or you wish to be more aware of the ambient sound around you, these electronic ear muffs are what you need.

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The Australian International Arms M10 Rifles.

Ten shot .308 Win/ 7.62 Nato 10 shot power house. For Military Rifle Competition or flattening Pigs.
M10-B1 (7.62×51mm NATO)
560mm barrel, medium weight, sporter configuration, 10-rd, magazine. Adjustable foresight for elevation, windage, dual rear aperture for 200 & 400 metres. Picatinny steel rail to mount telescope.
M10-B2 ex-M42-B2 (7.62×51mm NATO)
640mm heavy barrel a la L42A1.Steel blue-black finish, teak hardwood stock with chamfered edges, hand oiled. Adjustable foresight, elevation & windage. 10-rd. box magazine like US M14. ‘L’ aperture for 200 & 400 metres. Comes with Picatinny steel rail for ’scope sight.Military butt & cheek rest like L42.
Three different models presently in stock, basically the heavier the barrel, the more expensive

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Tasco 8 x 21 Compact Binoculars,

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Idea for Dad and Son, An Adult Air Rifle. Practice Target Shooting in the Garage.

(Air Rifle Scopes have to be EXTRA shock resistant for High powered Air Rifles) . These single shot spring air rifle feature ultra Hi ergonomics in its soft, synthetic pistol style grip and sculptured cheek piece, 28 pounds of cocking force gets up to 1000 fps. Other features include aTwo stage Adjustable trigger, Ventilated rubber recoil pad, Precision rifled steel barrel, Crossblock trigger blocking mechanism, Ambidextrous safety, made in the USA.

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Accurate Firearm Design

Custom Built Rifle Actions.

The building of an action for a new or special design for one’s own use or for another purpose is a very tedious and expensive undertaking because every part has to be machined separately from steel and they all have to fit together, much more than that all the parts have to function together and work as a unit. You are creating a repeating single piston engine it converts dry fuel into energy and that energy drives the piston the projectile. Only a skilled machinist or a tool maker can successfully undertake such a job even after the design has been laid down on the drawing board, and he must have access to a fully equipped machine shop including facilities for heat treatment. Similarly the manufacture of a few such actions for sale has to be undertaken in a similar manner and is usually too costly. Breech action manufacture commercially is really out of the question except in large quantities to off set the tooling and set up costs. The fabrication of a single breech action by hand may run into months and cost millions of dollars.
This is why shooters who wish to have special arms made for their own use have had to use existing breech actions which have been manufactured in quantity and can be had at moderate cost. To one of these they can then fit a special barrel, stock, and sights, and can even adapt the arm to a special cartridge for which the breech action is suitable. Thousands of such arms are being built in Australia annually, whereas the building of a breech action of special and new design is of rare occurrence.

Before contemplating altering or building a firearm action, some thought must be applied to the purpose that the completed firearm will be applied to. As the weight of the completed firearm would be governed by the weight and design of the action that was designed for its purpose.
The desired weight of the completed arm should be taken into consideration. in designing a new breech action. Our present thought is that the weight of the complete arm, but not including telescope sight, sling, or cartridges loaded into the magazine should be approximately as follows:
For a young boy’s first firearm 4 ½ to 5 pounds.
For 10 to 14* years old boys rifles and shotguns—about 6 pounds. (* Depends on the 14 years old as some at that age are 6ft 4 in and built like Cassias Clay, then they carry your rifle)
For mountain rifles and light waterfowl shotguns 6 ½ to 7 pounds.
For heavy (For the swamp, duck shotguns 7 ½ to 8 ½ pounds.
For general hunting rifles 7 ½ to 8 ½ pounds.
For Infantry rifles 9 to 9 ½ pounds.
For long range game rifles, varmint rifles, and sniper rifles, l0 to 11 ½ pounds.
For match rifles for highly competitive rifle shooting, 11 to 13 pounds.
For hand guns for target and military use 2 to 3 pounds.
The balance of the firearm should also be taken into consideration, although this is dependent rather upon barrel and stock than on breech action. However, the choice of a breech action design may make the completed firearm either too light or too heavy so think about it, as it better to make modifications to the action design at the design stage and not attempt to to reduce weight at the completion of the job. Very often this means that parts are reduced in thickness and strength which can cause severe problems at test firing time.
Continued in Edition 44.

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THOUGHT s FOR THE WEEK .
Elections Are Just Their Entertainment.

For those who feel cheerful or inspired by the results of the 2010 election, remember this time, remember where you were, when you felt good last. As unfortunately, if anyone is out there that still believes that anything good, in the cause of freedom can come from an election in the 21st Century, then last night, it was proved again, that elections are only part of the chains that bind us. The whole process of elections is dependent on an educated electorate, once that process is subverted and controlled we are its slaves.
The Greens achieved their balance of power in the Senate, with 9 seats, they even have a seat in the house of Representatives. If Tony Abbot or Julia Gizzard is Prime Minister it means nought, all legislation to be passed must suit the Greens or it does not happen. Legislation proposed by Labour or Liberal will be Tit for Tat with the Greens or it won’t happen, Liberals will have to sit around and think of legislation that suits the Greens, (sacrificial lambs) so that they can get there own wages bills through the Senate. Guess who will be the lambs? Lee RHIANNON of the Anti Gun Coalition was elected as member of the Senate, for the Greens of course. The media ‘Push Poll’ with contrived questions and answers changing their allegiance from Labour to Green, building Profiles and attacking any independence.
There are 14 million Australians registered to vote on the roles. Yesterday 10 million bothered to vote, even though voting is compulsory and they face a fine for not voting. Can you imagine fining 4 million people, they make an excuse , it gets lost in the mail, or they pay the fine. With 77 % of the vote counted 618,429 voted for one of the largest parties, INFORMAL, so nearly 5 million eligible to vote refused, or had other things to do. More than likely there is another million or so who ensure that they are not on the register to vote so that they do not get a fine. 9 ½ million people voted for the four major parties. Of course the ones that did nothing, were the largest majority of all.
All the dedicated, sweat, tears and money donated by the brave few who tried to change things with independents and minor parties achieved nothing, but an expensive education, with a few single figure percentages.
Of course apathy Won the day, these days it seems everyday. In our area we are told by the Queensland police that there are 15,000 licensed shooters, in our Council area. That is the highest percent per population in Queensland and maybe Australia. Even in the rest of Australia, when we include their families, it should be the largest and best voting group in the country, they should be the king makers. Yet, they are told by politicians and the media that they are a minority and so believe they are a minority. All the customers that come in the shop, see the posters and talk politics, at that point they all detest the major parties and that sick looking homosexual Brown who is green on the outside and red on the inside. When I went to the local church hall to vote, two of my farmer customers were handing out ‘how to vote’ cards for the LNP. They approached me sheepishly, I asked them what they were doing there, supporting a party that had sold them into economic slavery and taken their guns of them. They had answers, such as “it’s the better of two evils”. So they worked for their own destruction, the media had done its job. Our education system, combined with tight media control has them in the grip of its only party, party A and party B, Tweedldum and Tweedldee. Shooters are still voting the same way, they believe that will make a difference.
In the 1960s and 1970s the socialists, had a concerted campaign to fill university with lecturers and professors of their political persuasion, so they supply the schools with teachers, the courts with judges, the TV stations, newspapers with journalists all from their Green on the outside red on the inside perspective, and it worked. We have payed for an educations system that destroys us. Our people think that freedom is choosing which TV channel they watch.
We keep our kids at school until they are 18 and then they can vote. I have interviewed many of them, many of them that matriculated to university. I ask them questions, What’ is the largest island in the world, what the second highest mountain, what’s the longest river, who wrote ‘Great Expectations’, Who painted the ‘Morna Lisa’. What is 13 x 12, What is the capital of France, Who invented the light bulb, What did Beethoven write? If I get one correct answer I put the flag up, but in the main because most do not have any answers, I use it as a gauge as to what they know of the world around them. Most do not know what a ‘capital’ is, some think its just big letters. We have paid dearly for an education system that might teach them to use a mobile phone but gives them no idea or incentive to make one. I left school while I was still 14 and joined the Regular Army on my 15 th birthday, a limited education with poor grammar and spelling but I knew all of the answers to the above questions and a lots more. I can only conclude that there has been a campaign, ‘Stage one’ to Dumb Down the public over the last fifty years. Once that ‘dumbing’ has been achieved it makes ‘Stage two’ the power of the media, to have much greater affect as it lessens any chance of the people being able to think for themselves. They galvanise the public into believing that there are only two options, which really are the same option. There are many examples of the media making the people into ‘Lemmings’ (they are those little four legged animals that every few years, follow one another and jump into the sea,) like the rats in the Pied Pipier of Hamlyn following him into the river, then when not being paid, the Piper returns and pipes the children into the river. One of those very real examples of the media inciting a National destruction is when the Japanese media outlets informed the simple civilian peasants of Okinawa, (350 miles from Japan) that they would suffer rape, torture and murder at the hands of the Americans, the Okinawans believed them and fought to the death, the American troops were at times confronted with battalions of women armed with pointed sticks who fought to the death. Massed suicides of the civilian population with the people throwing themselves off cliffs. 142,000 civilians died, even though the Americans dropped surrender pamphlets like snow, the people would not believe, that the Americans only wanted to give them money so they could buy Hersey Bars, Cocoa Cola and Chewing Gum. The Japanese had ‘dumbed down’ the population and indoctrinated them into believing that the Americans would do awful things to them and so they led the people into mass suicide, over the cliffs. Well the Pied Piper has played the tune in the western world our next generations have been well and truly piped up and are now formed up in controlled rows ready to go over the cliffs, to their doom. What do we do, join in the throng? Move to another country? Or do we try to educate and inform? Whatever, it has to be something different as elections only work to further enslave the people.

Tasco 4x 32 Silver Antler Rifle Scope

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UNDERSTANDING RELOADING AMMUNITION

MAKING POWDER.

Continued on from Edtion 42

Deterrents.
If you have been reading this series of articles and continue to do so, you will be one of the tiny points of a percentage of people in Australia who have any understanding of the methods and materials used in manufacturing smokeless powder. ( Well nearly smokeless) Knowing what goes into these processes, understanding why, and how gives you more confidence in making decisions in your overall reloading procedure. Even if you cannot remember in future months all the details you know where the information is, where it is stored on the Owengun.com page so you can find it or direct others to read this series of articles.
If for artillery use, then DPB might be added for the same purpose. Artillery powders would also require addition of a deterrent at this point to slow down burning. Dinitrotolulene (DNT) is normally used for this purpose. It is highly hygroscopic so must be broken up and screened just prior to addition to the mix.
Once all secondary ingredients have been added, the mixer is closed and started. The operator leaves the building or enters a barricaded safety area while the mixer is running. Mixing is done by two counter-rotating Sigma blades, two-blade paddles resembling the letter S, rotating in a horizontal plane.
After a short time, the operator shuts down the mixer and uses a non-sparking tool to break loose any mix that has gathered where the blades could not reach it. Solvent mix is also added at this time if it appears necessary to the operator. Experience is invaluable in determining whether the mixture is too dry.
Mixing then proceeds to completion which is determined to a degree by elapsed time, but also by the operator’s experience. Considerable quantities of alcohol-ether vapours are generated by mixing and must be drawn off into the recovery system.
Flash fires were once fairly common in this operation, but in recent years they have become rare. Experience and sophisticated safety measures, plus the use of highly responsible personnel, paid off in safer operations.
It is worthwhile to mention here that scrap powder generated in the various processes is reworked by either using it (plus solvent) to charge the mixer, or by adding it to the nitro-cellulose charge. The scrap consists generally of broken powder strings, defective grains, “heels” from the various processes. Nothing is wasted, as is clearly shown by the vast and expensive recovery systems.
Coming from the mixer, the powder is ivory to yellow in colour, depending on the mix, and looks somewhat like damp brown sugar. It is partially colloided and the process must be continued in a machine called a macerator.
The powder is transferred directly to the macerator where gear-like blades and teeth knead the mixture under tremendous pressure. The blades are closely meshed and rotate in opposite directions. Solvent content of the powder is very important at this stage, neither too wet nor too dry. No more solvent can be added during maceration, yet the powder will ignite if it becomes too dry while the machine is running. Considerable heat is generated by the kneading process, so the macerator is fitted with a cooling jacket through which refrigerated
alcohol is circulated. By this means, powder temperature is held at about 68°-72°F.
The macerator continues the colloiding operation, converting the powder to a rubbery mass that can be pulled apart by the fingers. It is removed in irregular chunks and transferred immediately to the preliminary blocking (pre-block) stage.
In pre-block, the rubbery chunks are charged into the cylinder of a large vertical press. With the press closed, ram pressure is applied very slowly to force excessive solvent from individual chunks. Pressure is slowly increased to compact the colloided powder into a solid block. If pressure is applied too fast, an attendant temperature increase may cause the powder to flash and burn, that would not conducive to the press operator’s peace of mind. When the compressed cake is fully formed, it is ejected from the press cylinder and immediately transferred to the “macaroni” press in the next barricaded compartment.
The macaroni press performs two functions; that of extruding the powder into thin strands (thus its name), then re-compressing them into a solid block.
The pre-block is placed in the chamber of the macaroni press. The ram applies force to the top of the block, forcing the plastic powder to flow through a number of individual dies set in a plate in the bottom of the cylinder. It emerges as long, round strands which fall directly into the cylinder of a floor-level blocking press with its ram retracted.
This extrusion continues the colloiding action begun by the mixer and carried on by the macerator. Screens placed between the powder blocks and the die plate, catch and hold un-colloided lumps of nitrocellulose or other free ingredients that still exist. Great pressure is required to accomplish the extrusion, being built up slowly to just over 5,000 psi.
When extrusion of a cake is complete, the macaroni press is stopped and the powder strands broken off and dropped into the blocking press. This press is then capped and its ram rises to compact the mass into a twelve inch diameter cake fifteen to eighteen inches long. The cake or “block” is then ready for the graining presses. Continued in the Next Edition.
Continued in Next Edition

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BAIT THROWERS

Sling Shots as seen in use on the Streets of Bankok. If you cannot get a firearm seems as though these are the next best thing to take on the M16 opposition. Even though they lost the battle for the streets they won points for bravery. These have an internal magazine for quick loading, Extra effective using round lead musket balls for ammo.

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Help Stop 642 pages of GUN LAWS

Ron Owen — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:56:17 +0000

Don't Lose your Prized Possessions Act NOW.

We, the Victims of Firearm Legislation are to be chained down with more Restrictions. Protest NOW.

Yesterday the Queensland State Government tabled 2 documents , the Weapons Regulation 2010 – Consultation Draft and the Weapons Bill 2010 – Consultation Draft. Below is the link to the relevant website. Please be aware that although the public consultation period ends on 14 September, submissions must be received by 28 August 2010. This is another fresh 642 pages of imposed legislation that affects the law abiding citizen of Queensland.

Draft of the Weapons Bill 2010 ( 879 KB) and the Draft Weapons Regulation 2010 ( 891 KB)

It does not affect the Police and it does not affect the Crims, only You the Firearm Owner will be the VICTIMS.

Now is the time to act and mobilise your friends and families to defend all our rights. As we have been the victims for to long.

Please write and email, use the power of the computer to send your personal letter to the politicians, use the links below to send to as many Queensland politicians as possible.

Make sure you always include your name and address. That way you will be taken seriously.

QLD Gov Ministers: Click here to e-mail all Gov Ministers

QLD Shadow Gov Ministers: Click here to e-mail all Shadow Gov Ministers

Find your local MP: Click here to find your local MP, Click on their Electorate in the middle of the column, then click on the e-mail address

Below is a copy of my letter, to be used as idea’s. Copy the heading only,

‘Submission on, Draft of the Weapons Bill 2010 and the Draft Weapons Regulation 2010′.

I have already sent this so please don’t just copy all of it and send it again, change it a bit, at least. Even that though is better than not sending anything at all. Remember submissions must be received by 28 August 2010.

Civilisation began because People chose to live in a society that protected them from ‘Bullies’.

Dear Sir/Madame

RE- Submission on Draft of the Weapons Bill 2010 and the Draft Weapons Regulation 2010.

As an ex service man of seven years and a person who received his first shooting license, fifty years ago, when I was twelve, I ask that the government not impose even more dictates on shooters.

The Police Minister says in his press release, http://www.police.qld.gov.au/programs/weaponsLicensing/weapons_bill/

“has been developed with a clear and overarching objective in mind – increasing community safety. These recommended changes will also help to make the legislation easier to read and interpret by consolidating existing and new provisions to clarify the rights and responsibilities of weapons owners. Ministerial Weapons Act Review Committee was formed and the Act and its Regulations were re-written. That same committee – comprising of representatives from the weapons industry, civil rights, Government and the Queensland Police Service.”

Your drafters of this 642 pages of legislation have only re-written the draft to the instructions of the Queensland Police Service. None of the recommendations of the Firearm organisations was given half a line. Even the RSL has to totally wreck its exhibits to place them on display, in secure premises. These two documents are purely the product of the Police.

Legislation is supposed to be a pact between the people and the parliament not the product of those you chose to set over us. The Police are a self interested body who continually increases itself on a perpetual growth system know as ‘Parkinson’s Law’, or ‘Jobs for the Boys’. The more power it has the more staff it has the better pay increments it leader have. The increase kills all efficiencies but then again they have totally lost the point of defending the people and saving life, they State revenue raisers and State bully boys that you set over us.

I would like to remind the Minister, we firearm owners are the ‘Community’. Before he imposes 642 pages of legislation throttling that community, he should first demonstrate a need for any of it. When twenty years ago in 1990, we had 29 pages of the Queensland Firearms Act of 1976, the communities greatest problems then was that the Australian society was broken into three sections, the Criminal Elements, who take no notice of Firearm law and the Queensland Police, who are exempt from it anyway and the Law Abiding Society including Law Abiding firearm owners, who are the Victims. Twenty years later, and hundreds of pages of firearm legislation later we have Home Invasion a crime that was unheard of until this legislation dis armed the community, ‘the Victims’. This legislation left us with huge increased crime rates, inflicted on the Community, the un armed or un prepared Victims. Propelled by that increase we have had a huge taxation and administration burdens due to increases in Police. Supposedly to control this crime increase but these increases are more than likely dissipated in supervising the best behaved elements of our community the law abiding firearm owner.

The new legislation imposes a 124 % increase in charges, to prevent pensioners from retaining their property. If they do not disarm us by legislation they fine, without trial, prosecute by taking our money and when we cannot afford it take our property by default.

This new legislation gives un precedented powers to the authorised police officers who can then make un written, un seen by parliament the law of the land. For example, if a persons property, a firearm looks nasty in the eyes of the authorised officer it can be re-categorised from A to D the result being you cannot own it anymore.

Giving the Police these discretionary powers to make their own law, was one of the Fitzgerald Inquiries biggest gripes about the past system.

This legislation takes away all principles of civil rights, the powers of search, the powers to indict, without providing evidence to a jury, the power to judge and limit people by association, the power to take peoples livelihoods, there tools of trade, without trial. Giving these immense powers to an organisation with a known criminal record. (The CJC, the CMC, the Australian Crime Commissions have endless convictions on this organisation)

This draft Act also creates huge impositions on the community that has to police, in and un paid capacity, the jobs that the Queensland Police Service do not want to do themselves, such as Pistol Clubs having to inspect members shoot records for each member, for each category of firearms. These are volunteers, trying to run a non-profit association and your legislation gives a penalty if they do not perform to expectations demanded by the Queensland Police Force.

Your proposed legislation turns firearm dealers , and armourers into unpaid policemen, checking thousands of documents for the police, on a penalty if they make a mistake. Forced to carry out the work of the Queensland Police in harassing there customers. The Queensland Police must have taken lessons from the Gestapo.

To set a document of this size over the law abiding people of this state, when you intend to prosecute these people for not knowing these proposed laws. When with forethought and planning you understand that memorising 642 pages is beyond the mental capacity of the parliamentarians to even read it, before voting on it, never mind remembering it all, is a crime of tyranny against the people you are supposed to represent.

Our parliamentarians have set two dogs to rip the Victims apart, one is the Criminal elements that are given free reign to raid, rape and plunder at will and the other is the known criminal group the Queensland Police Service. (taxpayer millions go to the CMC which only faintly attempts to control there excesses) Why does parliament give them both more licence to get fat from the Victims?

The drafters of this legislative nightmare make the Police the sole judge of firearm safety, they appoint the safety testers, they check the shooting ranges, they assess the categories of firearms, they legislate the magazine capacities, and yet it is an accepted fact that the Queensland Police Service are the most dangerous and have the worst safety record in the state. There could be possible another State or Federal body that has a worse safety record but it would be doubtful. What intelligent group would do that?

We have all done what you have ordered, we have had ourselves photographed, we have joined clubs, you force us to attend, we have gone out and bought steel safes, we pay for half a dozen different licenses, as collectors, hand guns, armourer, long arms, as you legislated for nearly a dozen different types. For all of them, we send multi, photographs of ourselves, much money, multi page renewal forms, multi page applications for ‘Permits to Acquire’ after we have already sent the same information with the licence applications. We buy home security systems, extra security for our cars, we put up with the police knocking on our home doors to check what we have in our steel safes. We have done all this and now you want more?

You want more money, $5 million. You want to tax us, or more like fine us, the best behaved section of our community.

If you really wanted to save money and spend more in hospitals, you should do away with the whole system altogether as it achieves nothing. It would save ten million or more. To you politicians its peanuts, to us it’s the very thin end, of a thin wedge.

Recently, the police dragged a pensioner before the courts for having a pkt of .22 ammo in a cupboard. He had handed his rifles in at the police station, (could not afford the renewal fee’s) and asked the policeman what he should do with the ammo. The policeman answered honestly that he had no interest in it. so the pensioner took it home. He was responsible, he didn’t throw it in the bin, or chuck it out of the car window in disgust at losing his property, his rifles. Now he is facing charges for having ammunition without a license. It cannot hurt anyone without the rifle, even if you burn it, only the brass cases pop off, 30 inches it won’t penetrate a sheet of brown paper.

We citizens have become the hunted, you are now our jailors. The government once gave me a rifle and ammunition, lots of it, to do its work. Maybe we were on the wrong side. ‘Betrayal’ leaves a bad taste, and the mates who died for freedom have been betrayed far more than I. We used to have rights but you have taken them all away, the right to freely own property, the right to defend oneself and our families, freedom of speech. (Anti-discrimination laws have stolen that) We now do not have a right to chose, who we employ.

I suppose you think that those two hundred thousand shooters, (the police always minimize except when they want more money) will not vote Labour anyway and so you don’t care, but Labour always forgets a few things. Most shooters dislike your opposition, Liberal and National more than you. National, Russell Cooper and the ‘evil gnome’ John Howard introduced the last lot of legislation, and the shooters will never vote for them again. It has put the National Party out of power for twelve years.

You the Labour Party have been the beneficiaries of that for twelve years. We victims, all have families, wives kids and some with parents and uncles. Who do you think they vote for? If you want to put the other side in, go for it.

Ron Owen , JP. (Qual)

Civilisation began because People chose to live in a society that protected them from ‘Bullies’.

Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 42 August 2010

Ron Owen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:10:28 +0000

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Once turned on the microphone, located at the top of the ear muff, will pick up and amplify ambient noise. If some one standing next to you talks, their voice will be amplified through the speakers in both ear muffs. Should there be a loud noise, such as a firearm, the electronic ear muffs will automatically cut out and block the loud noise. The electronic ear muffs are designed to attenuate noise about 85 decibels, meaning that they will block out instantly, once the noise reaches a certain level. The electronic ear muffs allow you to control the volume level of ambient noise around you. On the shooting range with constant loud reports, the electronic ear muffs will block this noise. For range instructions or to communicate with another person, you can instantly hear them speak.
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Prince Hohenlohe in his “Letters on Artillery,” the “Bible” of artillery officers of forty years ago, stated that the first duty of the Artillery was to hit, and the second duty was to Hit, and the third duty was to HIT! The same may be said of the user of a small arm. Shooters can only hit reliably with firearms designed to shoot in a particular method to suit a particular discipline or type of target. A Benchrest rifle is not suitable for shooting Metallic Silhouette. A small arms breech action should be so designed that it will lend itself to incorporation into a complete assembly of arm which will be suitable for the particular manners of shooting. Rifle, shotgun or handgun the firearm has to suit the physical requirements of producing consistency which is what accuracy is all about.
For example, To aim a shoulder arm accurately and steadily in all firing positions the shooter’s face must be laid down in a natural and relaxed manner so that the cheek rests firmly on the left side of the comb of the stock. When the head and cheek are so rested the right eye is then held steady with respect to the weapon, as though it was a part thereof. The dimensions and shapes of parts, stock, receiver, and sights, must then be such that the pupil of the eye comes naturally and without effort into the line of aim through the sights. If a receiver were so designed that its high rear portion extended way back over what is called the “small of the stock” the head would have to be held way back in an uncomfortable, constrained, and unsteady position to prevent the recoil driving that portion of the receiver back into the eye, and accurate shooting would be an impossibility. Many semi-automatic weapons have been designed with just such a receiver, but of course in our heavily legislated, conservative industry new designs never get to first base.
It is well known general assumption that, other things being equal, the heavier the barrel of a rifle the more accurately will it shoot. A very light barrel, that is, light with respect to the power of the cartridge it shoots, is notorious for inconsistent shooting. The breech action design must be such as will permit the use of a barrel heavy enough for good accuracy.
Sights for modern rifles are all of the Telescopic sight of a variation and must, be located within three or four inches of the eye when the rifle is in a normal firing positions. The breech action must lend itself to proper location of suitable sights of this type.
The advantages of the telescope sight are such that many, a majority of sporting and target rifles will all be equipped with them for the foreseeable future. A telescope sight of normal design must be located centrally over the top of the breech action and barrel, and it is desirable that it also be located as low down as possible, almost touching barrel and receiver. A modern breech action for a rifle should be designed with respect to its receiver for loading, direction of ejection, safety in controlling the internal gas pressures and so as to permit a suitable location of a telescope sight. Importance is not necessarily in that order.
For effective rapid fire the round bolt handle knob of a bolt action rifle should be located on the right side of the receiver, and to the rear in a plane even with the trigger. The handle should be turned down close to the side of the receiver or stock so that it is just possible to get the right fore-finger under it easily to raise it. If a fired case sticks in such an action the easiest and the quickest way to free it is to strike the bolt handle knob with the palm of the right hand. To permit striking a heavy blow without injuring the hand the knob should be round, not flat as seen on those ‘butter knife’ European rifles.
There are three types of shoulder arm stocks which in their outline, shape, and dimensions have proved to be very satisfactory for the shooter and his method of shooting. The best examples of these are the hunting rifle stocks as seen on the standard hunting rifles such as Remington and Winchester, or the prone target rifle stocks seen on the AIA M10 or old Omark M44 Target Rifles, and finally the shotgun stock as seen on most of the higher grades English double barrelled rifles and shotguns. Shoulder arm breech actions should be such that they will permit the fitting these types of stocks which alone, generally speaking, lend themselves to the steadiest holding and quick catching of aim in the various normal firing positions, on both level and sloping ground. Even with all the money that governments spend on their military rifles, none should not be taken as an ideal, for a military, hunting or target stock. Every military stock in the world is a massive compromise of needs, such as the average size of the soldier, or its design for bayonet fighting, or how it fits in the storage racks, or will it suit the Army drill book. All will be modified from the ideal dimensions for other reasons such as to utilize many millions of sawed stock blanks already on hand before the new rifle was designed. The last reason will be the personal need for the soldier issued with it to defend his and his comrades lives with it. Dollars are worth more than lives.
The best form of hand-gun grip is perhaps that used on the Hi-Standard Model D semi-automatic pistol. Many completely trained master handgun shooters prefer grips specially made to fit their hand exactly, but it is thought that a frame similar to the above Hi-Standard pistol will generally adapt itself to the form and shape of grip that the competitive pistol shot will usually design for himself.

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Thought For The Week.

Shoulders to the Wheel.
If shooters, (and Fishermen and Four wheel drivers) do not act within the next three weeks to express, their horror of what is going to befall this country, then another ‘plague will be on our houses’, even worse than what the little ‘evil gnome’ (John Howard) did to us in 1998.

It is a case of act now, speak out, tell all your friends and family, as well as writing to the local papers, encourage everyone to show their revulsion of what Labour and the Greens have sworn to do to us all, or bury your head in the sand and accept everything that they do to you.
We are currently being attack presently in both the Federal and the State levels and due to a media feeding frenzy on the Federal election idea of Tweedledee or Tweedledummer the issues important to freedom and our way of life will never get a mention. Most people’s only solution is to replace Labour with Liberals. This is similar to actual beef cattle preferring Mc Donald’s to Hungry Jacks. Either way, the cattle lose.
The Liberal/Nationals, who the voting cattle may take a shine to, send the shooting voters through the same meat-grinders as Labour does. You will be queuing up, wondering if your going to get anything for your property, same as last time with the same bunch of crooks running the handing in process. The principle is no different as both parties will put your firearms, your hopes and dreams through the government meat-grinders. Both main parties put Australian freedoms, hunting , fishing, target shooting, four wheel driving at the disposal of Big Banks, George Sorus, Rebecca Peters, and the Green agenda. The Greens, Green on the Outside Red in the Middle.
Both parties, want to woo, the Greens for power in the Senate, both parties keep the same gang of thieves in control of Australia’s financial position. Both main parties are totally dependent on the campaign contributions from the Big Banks. Neither party helps the people to find employment, both want to import more cheap labour from Asia and Africa. In short, both parties are full of liars and con-artists. Voting for either of these political machines is an exercise in “stupidity” which allows us to view those who vote this way as stupid based on the foolish/stupid act that they commit when they vote for further enslavement. Of course the main parties propagate this idea that voting is important and legislate to make it compulsory as they both know that currently it does not make any difference. They get paid anyway. They must think we are all fools.
Albert Einstein once defined insanity as, “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” By Einstein’s definition, it is very clear that past voting falls squarely within Einstein’s definition of insanity. Every two or four years the politicians from both parties determine what the voting cattle want to hear and they tell it to them. The voters actually believe what they’re being told each and every time and do their duty to the national scam and cast their vote for their favourite liar. Then, after an appropriate amount of time passes, the voters realize they’ve been fooled by the politicians and get “mad as Hell” and vow to “vote the liars out of office” in the next election. A major problem with this is there are only other liars to replace the first set of liars with! However, since voting is much easier and safer than revolution, the ‘sheeple’ are happy to perform their duty. They are so sold on the scam of replacing one group of charlatans with another group of charlatans. The fact that voting for one crook over another only reinforces evil and gives more life to the scam, which the politically insane cannot grasp.

The New Weapons Act for Queensland.The exposure draft of the Weapons Bill will be available on the Queensland police website http://www.police.qld.gov.au/ on August 6. You have to act, don’t hope for the main opposition party to block it, ore even speak against it, its up to you, you have to tell all of the charlatans that you will dedicate the rest of your life to the destruction of ‘both of their houses’, and mean it.
Evan Moorhead MP, the Labour state member for Waterford.Has stated. “I support stronger weapon regulation. I also support the cost of regulation being recovered from owners of weapons. I cannot justify asking my constituents to subsidise the cost of weapons ownership through extra taxes”.
What arrogance, what a deception. He should get a thousand letters asking him, why he supports this regulation, when the regulated are innocent, their only wrong is that they complied. There taxes contribute to a Police and Justice system that’s totally failed, that allows the paedophiles, dope pushers, free government run dope ‘shooting galleries’, the general public to be the prey of both criminals and police.
Moorhead and his mates can justify the imposition on the good, while the bad can do what ever they like. Are they fools, that cannot understand that their neighbours ownership of firearms protects them. (might be all the protection they have left) Are they so secure in ignorance, that they don’t know that we are the lambs to the slaughter. Firearm owners are not a danger to the community, politicians like these are a danger to the community as they wish to leave all of the people helpless. Most people, are aware that the joke, “That the Bikers Gang are doing it tough, they had to lay off five of our local Policemen”, is only funny because its true. Click this link to email Queensland Government Ministers: Email all Government Members.

Put Green,Labour Liberal LAST

The Greens, without your solid intervention, are most likely to be the new controlling power in the Australian Senate. One of the new Senators will be Lee Rhiannon who is one of the five members of the Coalition for Gun Control with John Crook, Rebecca Peters.
Her parties policy is;-
“To reduce the number of firearms in circulation particularly high-powered firearms. (Their definition could include a high power air rifle)
Tough legislation to reduce firearm ownership,
Ban all semi-automatic handguns,
Strengthen nationally uniform gun laws,
Publicly expose the aims and tactics of the gun lobby,
The abolition of existing minors’ permits,
All applicants for shooters licence to have a character reference from an authorised member of the community and the right of veto by household (immediate relatives or partners) members,
Undergo tests for licences conducted by the police, or an independent government body, rather than by members of the Shooters’ Associations,
That personal protection should never be regarded as a genuine reason for owning, possessing or using a firearm,
A register of all ammunition bought and sold to be kept by all outlets,
Guns in urban areas are to be stored at gun clubs under lock and key, with firing mechanisms kept at designated police stations;
Regular unannounced checks by police or another enforcement body to ensure that individuals and clubs are abiding with firearm storage regulations,
Enforcement of regulations requiring guns in homes in rural communities to be kept in a metal box with a combination lock securely bolted to wall or floor, with firing mechanisms and ammunition locked in a similar box in a separate room,
A ban on the so-called sport of ‘combat shooting’ where participants use semi-automatic handguns to shoot human-shaped targets in simulated scenarios,
Rural owners of licensed firearms to limit their use of firearms to legitimate farm purposes, and to use their firearms in ways that minimise disturbance of people on neighbouring properties, and reduce lead pollution in the local environment.

They have obviously forgotten the firearm safety record of the Police in all states is almost a compulsory matter of waiting to be shot by the accidental discharge of their work mates firearm or their own. They have missed the point completely that as well as a National body investigation Police Crime there has been for the last twenty years in every State a full time commission investigation into Police involvement in Crime. Do the Greens want to give all the guns to a body that has been under investigation for twenty years? Is it only because like the Gestapo they are the employee’s of the State and carry out the politicians dirty work, or because they trade in guns, and drugs?
You will also note that they the ‘Pistol shooters’ are due to get it in the neck again. Not long ago I can recall there main Association stating that they agreed with licensing and registration, they had complied with it years ago so why were the rifle shooters complaining. They refused to help. Well, now again its their turn. I hope we all learnt from that, and put our shoulders to the wheel together this time.
There has been many letters to the editor on this subject of our greatest threat, Disunity and I am slowly getting them up on the website at this link… Click Here

Put Green,Labour Liberal LAST

Remember consistency in the commonality of corruption found deep in all the major parties it is a primary reason Australia is consistently sinking. This consistent Tweedledee or Tweedledummer only accelerates the decline in happiness and the quality of life as well as the continued erosion of our rights and liberties. Look for alternatives such as the Shooters and Fishers Party they are putting up two Senate candidates for Queensland Andrew PETER and Chris HUGGETT I know nothing about these people check their website for yourself http://www.shootersandfishers.org.au we must find alternatives as a vote for our enemies kill us and our friends.

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Just as it comes from the wringer, the soft, irregular chunks of nitrocellulose are placed in the cylinder of the dehydration press. The press has two opposed vertical rams operating in a single cylinder. The nitrocellulose is placed in the cylinder with both rams retracted. Hydraulic pressure is applied and the rams move toward each other until stopped by the mass of nitrocellulose. Then, alcohol (pure grain alcohol of 180 proof, not the poisonous denatured variety) is forced into the nitrocellulose through the top ram. As alcohol feeds into the cake of nitrocellulose, water surrounding the individual fibres is displaced by the alcohol. Being heavier than alcohol, the water flows downward through the screened head of the lower ram into a tank. Later, stray alcohol is pulled out of the water by an efficient recovery system. Once the water is displaced, high pressure (around 3,000 psi) is applied to compact the nitrocellulose. Excess alcohol is squeezed out in the process and returned to supply. The dehydrated cake (containing about 49 lbs. dry nitrocellulose and 13.5 lbs. alcohol) is removed from the press and broken up into chunks by means of non-sparking tools. At this point it becomes known as “powder.”
This is as good a time as any to point out that all of the foregoing operations are continuous and interdependent. Once the dry linters or wood pulp begin nitration, they must pass rapidly and smoothly from one operation to the next. No hold-overs can be allowed at any point. All operations are conducted to meet the nitrocellulose requirements of the powder mill. This is done by varying the output of the nitating plant, not by stock piling. Because of this requirement for continuous operation, nitrating plants operate around the clock or not at all. At no time can an operator or shift cease operation until replacements are on hand to insure continuous operation. Also, the completed nitrocellulose must be delivered immediately directly to the first operation of the powder mill before any significant evaporation can take place. If it should sit idle for any great time, a fire is certain. From the dehydration house, the broken cakes are transferred in fibre buckets direct to the mixers. No delay is permissible because the highly volatile alcohol evaporates rapidly. Any great amount of evaporation will produce a flash fire. This can be a real problem in hot, dry weather. In the mixing house, individual mixers are housed in heavily barricaded rooms or compartments.The broken cakes are dumped into mixers virtually identical to heavy duty bread-dough mixing machines found in large commercial bakeries. The charge is carefully weighed and any alcohol lost by evaporation in transit is replaced. The alcohol is readily drawn from a nearby tap to meet this requirement.
(While one never sees a tin cup hanging alongside the tap, most people have often wondered whether some shrinkage might not be accounted for by thirsty mixer tenders. I can recall my own younger Army days and recall the hearing about the pickled condition of the two Royal Marines who were responsible for guarding the body of Admiral Nelson. As it was preserved for the trip back to England in a huge oak cask of Brandy. Lots of jokes about how much body was in it but you can be sure that they did not pure it down the drain when they took the body out for burial.)

To the alcohol-wet nitrocellulose is added a precisely calculated amount of previously blended ether-alcohol solvent. Ether cannot be used straight for this purpose. The usual mixture is 65 to 67 per cent ether and 33 to 35 per cent alcohol.Other ingredients required to control the burning characteristics of the powder are now added to the nitrocellulose solvent mix. These will vary considerably, according to the type of powder being produced and the individual specifications for that powder.Most important of these is the stabilizer which functions to prevent decomposition of the powder from this point onward. Pretty much the standard stabilizer, since 1909 is diphenylamine (DPA). It is an oily, pale yellow, granular material. Should there be infinitesimal amounts of acids left in the nitrocellulose, DPA counteracts their effect by combining with liberated oxides to form stable compounds. This effectively prevents deterioration with as little as 1 per cent DPA.Potassium sulphate may also be added at this time to reduce muzzle flash if the powder is intended for military small arms use. Continued in Next Edition

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Letter to the Editor Disunity, The Enemy Within!

Ron Owen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:50:22 +0000

Ron

I am not as learned as some of the commentators. But as a younger person I have seen the erosion and cunning destruction of my much loved sport and occupational pastime (shooting)over the last 40 years. Slowly and surely as cancer it has crept into our life as legislation has been enacted without our permission or request. Exactly as Hitler did in Nazi Germany in the early part of the nineteenth century, and I can see no difference in what will be the final outcome for firearm owners. Unless we have millions of dollars to fight these laws and the minions that enforce them we are doomed if you comply with the laws. I would urge all thinking men and women to procure firearms that are unable to be traced, as well as ammunition for the same and store these in a secure place. For a rainy day of course! Unless, you want to herded like sheep to the slaughter yards as did Hitler to the Jews and any others whom opposed tyrants while unarmed. If we ignore history we are doomed to repeat it, heard that before? Keep your powder dry and your blade sharp!
Gunruna

P.s. Just do some research into the plight of the people of Tibet as the Chinese slaughter them and breed them out of existence. Passive resistance is what has led them to this point. I am sure some of them wrote to their local politicians!

Dear Ron,

The community I was proud to be a part of appears to be tearing itself apart in an orgy of self-interest. Different groups within that community are happily sacrificing the rights of other groups in the hope that by doing so they will not be denied theirs.

I have not only heard of this before, I have challenged it. Sadly I was a voice in the wilderness trying to get the disparate groups of the same community in the UK to stand together against oppression and to recognise that the things they had in common were far greater than their differences. Moreover, sacrificing the rights of one sector of that community did not protect the rest, it merely made it easier for their rights to be taken away when their time came because there was no one left to help them in their fight.

You may have noted that so far I have not defined the ‘community’ I mention. You may well be thinking yes, we recreational anglers are facing this, or boating, custom car or motorcycle enthusiasts

However, I am not speaking of these groups, although they too may be suffering the same acts of treachery from within. No I am referring to the shooting community. A community beset by treachery from within since firearms licensing was conceived.

The more astute amongst you may have noticed that I paraphrased Martin Niemöller at the end of paragraph 4. Some of you may think that it is irrelevant and has no connection with the shooting sports in Queensland; nothing could be further from the truth. For those who are not familiar with Niemöller I will copy his words below.

“THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.

THEN THEY CAME for me

and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

If you still don’t see the relevance simply replace the last word of line one of each verse with your particular shooting discipline and I’m sure the penny will drop.

This divisiveness and treachery amongst the various disciplines MUST STOP.

Shooters have more than enough enemies attacking our community without internecine fighting.

If all the various disciplines do not pull together now, shooting as a sport or hobby will cease to exist. The only people permitted to own a firearm would be farmers and pastoralists. The city or suburban shooter who nips down to the range at the weekend for a bit of plinking at targets with his or her rifle will lose their sport and the company of their fraternal or sororal friends who shared their interest.

Simply because you may not enjoy the same shooting discipline as another member of your club or association does not mean that their discipline is wrong or does not deserve your support. IPSC shooters are under threat because other groups do not think their version of the sport is proper. Just as the military rifle shooters lost their military styled self-loading rifles. Do those within the shooting community who supported the ban on military styled self-loading rifles seriously think that those they betrayed will support them when their firearm of choice comes under threat?

There is no doubt in my mind what the answer to that question is, because I know the people who owned and used those rifles in their sport. That answer amazingly, is yes they undoubtedly will despite the fact that their brothers and sisters betrayed them.

One of the greatest successes of governments is that they have somehow managed to persuade shooters that owning a firearm of any type is a privilege and subject to the whim of government. This is simply not the case.

The right to possess arms is just that, a right. Governments and politicians are not our masters; they are our servants.

The shooting and firearm owning community as a whole must make their combined voices heard NOW before it is too late. The government YOU elected is destroying your sport piece by piece. No discipline is safe, all are under threat and the divisiveness and backstabbing within the community is only making it easier for them.

Get out your pen and paper, write to the Premier and your MLA, let them know, enough is enough. It is not hard, all you have to do is wake up and realise that the entire firearm owning community is under threat. It is not just the IPSC shooters, the goat, pig and deer hunters or the various small-bore target disciplines. It is ALL of YOU.

Write individually; tell them how you feel about the destruction of your sport or hobby in your own words, preferably as politely as possible. Foul language will not help the cause. But do it now, you have nothing to lose, only the cost of a sheet of paper an envelope and a stamp. It’s not much to save a way of life.

Brian

Dear Ron,

Just received your latest news letter and would like to comment on the letter regarding the shooting sports being fractured. The writer is absolutely correct in what he says. A couple of weeks ago, I was talking to a long time member of a prominent pistol club on the Gold Coast. He was off on a rant about western action “dickheads” and how he hated them and they should be banned from that club. Me being the defensive type, I jumped in and told this old fool in no uncertain terms what an idiot for another shooting discipline. I added, personally I can’t stand Olympic style pistol shooting, as it represents absolutely nothing to me. Having said that, I qualified it by adding that, though I despise this discipline, I will defend them until the end to enjoy what they choose to shoot.

Well, this argument went on for 15 minutes and I even threw in the problem that QUAPSA is only interested in their type of discipline at the expense of everyone else. This old bugger didn’t even like that organisation. Yet he couldn’t give me a good reason why western action should be banned … he just wanted them out of “his” club. This problem exists throughout our shooting groups. The Field & Game shotgunners seem to like everyone but the Trap shooters like no one. In fact, the Trap Shooting organisations payed only lip service while the evil gnome was taking our guns off us and all because the gun ban didn’t effect them. How bloody short sighted is that. BP shooters like everyone but “minute of angle” shooters despise everyone else with a rifle. We have to heal these stupid rifts or we FAIL.

The end argument is this: If we don’t all respect each others chosen discipline in the shooting sports, then the Qld. Government will take advantage of the old British treacherous trick of “Divide and Rule” and they will do it with glee.

Terry

PS: Take a look at the Firearms Policy of the (LDP) Liberal Democrats Party. They are very Libertarian and I dislike a few of their policies but generally, they’re not too bad. A young party and if lead well, they could be our saving grace.

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-Winston Churchill-

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-Thomas Jefferson-

“Those that stand for nothing, will fall for anything.”
-Alexander Hamilton-

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Hi Ron,
Regarding your thought for the week, it gets even worse than that. We fight amongst ourselves between disciplines. I enjoy all aspects of shooting. I have been a keen hunter since I could walk, I enjoy ISSF, western action, service, and IPSC to different degrees. I believe if the only reason you want to own a firearm is to stand on the range and pump lead into the mound then that’s a valid reason. But I hear so much fighting and hatred for other disciplines I can’t help but think we are doomed.
I have heard club captains trying to ban 9mm’s at their club because they claim they are inaccurate and all the shooter is doing is filling the mound with lead. I have heard ISSF pistol shooters say that IPSC and western action should be banned. And I have heard the same being spat back at them from the other disciplines too. I have seen many of them laughing at a denied police approval for a particular .223 caliber pistol saying “what possible reason could you want that, it looks like an assault weapon”. I was ignored when I said that it would make a good metallic silhouette pistol. If you closed your eyes you would think you were sitting at a coalition for gun control meeting.
We have the state body (of QAPSA) in QLD trying to have it legislated that to own a pistol you must be a member of them or the SSAA. Because at the moment IPSC, Western action, and casual shooters who don’t compete don’t have to join either. They’re trying to get more members to better fund state and national teams so we have better international representation, but they’re going about it the wrong way, what is it, you catch more flies with honey or something. They think we need international representation to validate our handgun ownership. (That’s just an excuse) Why not argue that it shouldn’t matter, that we should have a right to our freedom and to do what we want so long as we don’t harm anyone else in the process. That’s what we should be spending our money on convincing the pollies about. Not who can shoot what.
If you take away all pistol shooters except only one discipline, how long do you think handguns will be allowed in this country? While we keep fighting with one another we are doomed and I am left with a fear that my kids wont be able to enjoy the same freedoms that I have, if you can still call it freedom.
Cheers.

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