The Ammo Bill

[duncan61]

O.K. That sounds comprehensive.Do you get a time frame and appointment or do they randomly turn up

[Gamerancher]

I've only been contacted once prior to inspection. Last one was a knock on the door at 6.00am. Highway patrol copper doing the farms around town, he must have been bored. Quizzed me as to why I needed "so many guns?" to which I replied that most of them were for silhouette, that there were 11 different matches, each requiring a different rifle and that my wife and son also shot, that covered 33 of them. Showed him the trophy cabinet and told him that I also hunted he backed down and changed his tune. Basically left with his tail between his legs.

[duncan61]

You can stand up to authority.I heard through the grapevine that the local cops strip searched some of the young guys in town on the main HWY,I went to the station and chatted them about it.Fair enough we were in the same tennis club.Their people too

[Ratsmitglied]

Interesting. All the things I've read say that according to section 19 (c) inspections have to be organized at a mutually agreed time...

[Gamerancher]

Yeah, but when they are standing at your door and have an attitude already, the last thing I want to do is piss them off. I also go above and beyond on my storage, I've got too much invested not to, so I have no worries about being "caught out". We had a local dealer that had a flooding incident in his storage. He had all of the firearms in his possession layed out around his house drying, being cleaned and oiled up. A visit by the wallopers and he was in deep Sh*t. 6 years later he is still fighting in the courts to get his licences and firearms back. The Steve Lee incident, ( he lives locally ) didn't help with the attitude of the local constabulary.

[Ratsmitglied]

I don't blame you on that at all, Completely understand not wanting to to piss them off when they're obviously looking for an excuse to cause you trouble.

Especially if you have had previous incidents locally.

[Title_II]

This makes me very angry.

[Gamerancher]

Go and empty a few mags through one of your machine-guns. That will make you feel better.

[duncan61]

The smell of burnt propellant should calm you down

[on_one_wheel]

Can you use "no fixed address" as your address when purchasing ammo ?
I sure would.