Schedule 1 Prohibited Firearms
7 Any firearm that substantially duplicates in appearance (regardless ofcalibre or manner of operation) a firearm referred to in item 1, 5 or 6.
**Where 1,5,6 are machine guns, self loading rimfire and self loading centrefire firearms respectively***
Pennsylvania Yank wrote:With all due respect to your country, can anyone explain how your court system works? I suspect such a vague law in the US would likely be challenged by gun rights groups and struck down by our courts. The law as written either bans bolt action rifles, or certain features and accessories, or it doesn't. If you have a law enforcement entity that can ban a Colt 2012 because of a gray area in the law, then the law should not stand judicial scrutiny or else the courts should demand that your legislature fix the language. At least that is what my common sense and experience tells me.
To my knowledge some bright spark proposes a bill to change legislation - they form a parliamentary committee of a dozen or so people usually stacked by the Greens. They then discuss/debate/modify/approve the bill to go before parliament where if approved becomes law.
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