I've found a guy in the US selling a rifle I want.
Price is reasonable so we looked at the costs involved.
First up is an export fee of US$250, that's for anything at all firearm-related, but is the same $250 even if I buy ten rifles.
As you need a licence to be able to apply for the export, there is an additional fee for doing that.
http://weexportguns.com/
One place wants US$175 handling fee and a minimum shipping fee of US$430.
This all brings a US$1000 rifle up to around A$2500 by the time it lands here...where it is then hit with import duty and GST.
And then I'd probably want a couple hundred for my dealer to get it from Customs for me.
Has anybody here imported a firearm from the US recently?