Title_II wrote:Australia is worse. Not for ownership of full auto (I am not sure), but for getting info about it. Again, I know someone online in Australia who definitely legally owns full auto as a civilian. And he showed me advertisements of full auto for sale in AU as well. I asked about this here before and got "no way mate" or something similar. I do not believe this is correct, even if it might be from a practical standpoint for a lot of Aussies or in a lot of areas.
Can someone explain what it takes for ordinary civilians to own full auto in Australia? There seems to be some sort of combination of grandfathered machineguns and a license to own them on top of it. Anyway, please clarify for me if you can. Thank you so much.
You definitely can not have an automatic firearm here while in the position of "a civilian".
That is to say, as an individual I can apply for bolt action (Category B) license/permit here with the "genuine reason" (as it's called here) of recreational hunting or target shooting.
This is quoted from the NSW Firearms Registry on self-loading firearms. "These firearms are prohibited except for official purposes."
As "a civilian" there is no "genuine reason" or official purpose available to us for having an automatic firearm.
Regarding your Aussie friend who supposedly owns one. Has he mentioned he works at/own a firearms dealer or is he a gunsmith, anything along those lines? He must.
If he does in fact have one my guess is that his business has an Armourer’s Licence or similar. The business actually holds the license for automatic firearms and he in his capacity as a staff member can handle/use them as required for work. He himself as "a civilian" does not hold the license and can not use one for civilian purposes of recreational hunting or target shooting. He would be limited to using them for prescribed purposes of the license of the business.
e.g. A person here could have a license for a bolt action (category B) issues for recreational hunting or target shooting.
They could also have a category C or D license (self loading centre fire and rimfire with a certain magazine capacity) issued for primary production and/or pest control or as a firearms dealer.
With both licenses they can not take their cat C or D firearm out to hunt recreationally or to target shoot socially. It can only be used for primary production, pest control or held as a dealer to be sold to an appropriate person/body.