Having a loaded gun under your pillow (or on your nightstand) is asking for a Darwin Award whether you’re in the US or Australia.
i have been told by many people and even ones that own the gun, that a m16 is ok to own unregistered which will set you back $16-25000 of course. but if you apply for a licence and try to buy one registered ($8-9000) you wont get it. why is this and is it true? One of the guys own a fire arms shop that told me this.
How hard is it to punch in a safe code, grab a handgun, shove a clip in, and pull back the slide? That’s like 5 seconds.
You are responding to a post from five years back, y’know.
You are not permitted to own an unregistered firearm in Queensland. Cat D weapons, which include military style automatic weapons, are only able to be used by various government agencies and some occupations involving animal culling.
What the store owner may have been getting at is that if you don’t register a weapon then no one will know you have it. This is ok in the same way it’s ok to murder someone as long as no one catches you.
In Victoria I used to go shooting rabbits with a friend’s pump action shotgun (from memory it held a total of 7 rounds). This was prior to 1996, though (between 1989 and 1995) I had a license at the time but didn’t own a firearm myself. Was the law different back then, or did he have an illegal firearm?
Nolle Prosequi will doubtless be here to clarify, but on the issue of self defense what TheLoadedDog stated is to my mind inaccurate.
Common law self defense allows an individual to take all necessary and reasonable measures in order to safeguard themselves,others and even property. Even understandable overreaction in the heat of the moment has okayed.
The Australian law on self defense seems in guns seems to be that you cannot obtain a firearms lisence by claiming a need for self defense. It does not seem to relate to usage of firearms used self defense, presumably licensed firearms. Using lethal force against persons in the act of raping your daughter would seem to be a straight forward case or self defense. Unless a statute says that usage of a firearm will negate self defense,
If I were to move to Australia, would I be able to keep my rifles? (I’m assuming that keeping my handguns would be a right-out no-no.) Would I be able to (being a foreigner) purchase additional hunting rifles?
The law was different prior to 1997. It was changed as a result of the Port Arthur Massacre, and for some reason, pump-action shotguns were put on the “restricted” list, and high-capacity pump-action shotguns got put on the “effectively banned” list along with semi-auto rifles.
Tasmania is, I believe, in the process of trying to move pump-actions with five rounds or less back to “Category A”, which means anyone with a longarms licence and the appropriate (and fairly straightforward) permit to acquire could get one for general hunting and sports use.
Depends what they are. Semi-autos? No. Bolt-action rifles? Possibly, but you’d need a gun licence, and to get one of those you need permanent residency and to be a member of either a recognised shooting organisation (like the SSAA) or have a lot of land to shoot on.
Handguns, again, it depends what they are, but the short answer is “Possibly”, but getting a handgun licence is extremely time consuming and difficult. As to buying addition guns: Once you’ve got a licence you need a Permit To Acquire for each new gun you want, which is based on a “Genuine Need” for the gun.
Each State’s rules are slightly different, so it also depends where you’re planning on moving to and so on as well.
I don’t particularly like guns, but I do like making movies that sometimes have fake guns. It’s a shame we can’t have Airsoft replicas here.
No, I didn’t. Should I expect an answer in 5 years or do these things ever fall off the digital edge of the universe?
This sort of thing is exactly why I really think they need to auto-lock old threads or add a very clear “OLD THREAD” tag to them- a lot’s changed in the five years since I wrote the OP, including the fact I sold all of my guns (legally) a few years ago to pay for my wedding and various other sudden expenses that kept appearing at financially awkward moments.
I have been trying to import a replica M16 vietnam and deactivated 1911A1 45 ACP
I have had very good advice from the Police at the WA Firearms branch but your explanation is the final bit of explanation I require.
It can be very confusing trying to undertsand the varying State Laws.
I have purchased a deactivated pistol from Queensland and it’s still considered a firearm by WA Laws so I had too spend a extra $150.
I* have found most people who enforce the Laws here in WA anyway don’t understand the laws themselves and only the Firearms Branch are worth asking and they do a bloody good job too.
While I understould the anger at Port Arthur it was my belief that the guns used were in fact banned allready and had been illegal for some time.
The Market for black market guns has gone from $1500 for a pistol in the nineties too $7000 too $10.000.00 today.
Unfortunately criminal will get them and it is sporting shooters farmers and collectors who will suffer first from the criminals stealing them when they can, then by the authorities enforcing the knee jerk reactions because some piece of garbage has opened fire in Public once again and either nearly hit a innocent or worse and god willing I hope never happens some one is hurt.
Discharging a firearm in anger in Public should be a minimum of 15 years if you kill some one it should be life !
How good’s the hunting down there?
As I am unsure of the legality I hope one of you lads could answer. If I have a gun license for rifles can I legally own an m1 carbine in Queensland Australia
Some Victorian National Parks allow deer hunting and most NSW State Forests are open to shooting, all with a permit but there is an easy process to get one.
Its not impossible to get a permit to help cull feral animals in NSW National Parks however a lot of hoops to jump though.
I’m not Australian. I’m not an attorney, barrister, or other legally trained person. Go talk to one.
That said, what license do you currently hold in Australia for your rifle? Unless an M1 carbine falls under another category I’m unaware of, it looks like it would be covered by the Category D licence, for "Semi-automatic centre-fire rifles; semi-automatic shotguns (capable of holding more than 5 rounds); and semi-automatic rimfire rifles (capable of holding more than 10 rounds). In the Queensland Police’s own words,
Obtaining this strong evidence does not appear to be trivial. This guy has a video on his experiences obtaining a Class D licence in Queensland. (Not the same guy as Ozzy Man Reviews, FWIW.) He has a pest removal business as his reason for owning one.
Hopefully, there’s a Queensland equivalent to the United States’ Curio and Relic firearms that you could own the carbine under, instead of going through what appears to be a lengthy bit of bureaucracy.