What if the firearms are unregistered?
Unregistered firearms, must be immediately surrendered to police. It is an offence to
supply, acquire, possess or use an unregistered firearm - section 36(1) of the Act.
However, section 60 of the Act provides for an exemption to prosecution for the
offence of unauthorised possession of a firearm, provided the firearm is immediately
surrendered to police.
Following surrender of the firearms to police, an application may be made to the
court to allow you, as a licensee, to register those firearms to your licence.
If the court allows registration of the firearms, you will need to make application for a
PTA for each firearm.
Licence and permit holders can apply for a PTA a firearm online at the Service NSW
website (
http://www.service.nsw.gov.au). A fee of $30 is required for each PTA application
(one application per firearm). Consideration of a fee waiver may be given if proof of
inheritance is provided. Approval for a fee waiver is determined by the General
Manager, Firearms Registry.
When your PTA has been issued, you will need to arrange for a NSW firearms dealer
to take possession of the firearm from police to register the firearm. You then take
your issued PTA to that dealer who will authorise the transfer of registration
transaction and send the required information to the Firearms Registry.
A registration certificate will be posted to you after all the necessary paperwork has
been received and processed by the Firearms Registry.
What if I am the executor, administrator and/or beneficiary of a deceased
estate and I live interstate?
Contact the Firearms Registry on 02 6670 8590 for further information
it take minutes to find
This is all for the Deceased estate if the person responsible for the estate just handed you a firearm or you are not the e executor or administrator of the estate or if they passed away more than 6 months ago.
Might cause you a few problems if you just walk into a police station with it cause you technically do not have a reason to have said firearm. But you may find its registered .