bigfellascott wrote:bladeracer wrote:bigfellascott wrote:Yep they are applying that "Military Look" clause in the act from what I've been reading - I certainly wouldn't bother buying one, may well loose quite a few $$ if you aren't careful.
There's also been a heap of blokes get caught out with some device which you put on the end of your barrel to catch the dirty patches, turns out that is somehow illegal to do and they have been raided and lost firearms and licenses because of it (stupid I know) but you have to be careful what you do when it comes to firearms etc, they are just waiting to ping us for anything and everything, just like the blitzs they were conduction out in the central west over easter (pulling over vehicles that looked like hunting vehicles and searching them in the hope they find something amiss (they seem to run them regularly out here and always get quite a few who are doing the wrong thing.
If a firearm is licenced as is I can't see how they can claim it is now illegal if the rules haven't changed. If they aren't happy about the Firearms Registry allowing us to own something then they need to take it up with the Registry, it's nothing to do with the owner.
On the other hand, if they actually re-write the rules then there might be a problem. But my understanding of Australian law is anything that makes something illegal that is currently legal requires fair and just compensation be paid to lawful owners.
It's already in law, they just haven't been enforcing it and no they don't have to pay compensation, just like the Adler you can hand them in or get the mod done to make them legal, apparently people have been getting letters telling them to hand them in or sell them to Firearms Dealers or face legal action.
Important part there is "face legal action"
If you have the firearm, it's legal. They deemed it that is during your PTA application.
They would have to take legal action against every individual that decided to not hand in his legal registered firearms.
Just have a look at the reports from your police ombudsman and you'll see that when uninformed overzealous police officers enforcing their interpretation of the law doesn't go so well when reviewed.
its just like whenever the drift kids go out bush for one of the big events, cops set up on the main access road and check every car and person going in and out, as they couldn't come into the private property.
Go check out
http://www.firearmslawyer.net.au/ and some of the cases that turn up over there, shows you the real problem with police, they can barely follow their own enforcement and laws in regards to legal firearms no wonder we are in an epidemic of kids killing kids with illegal firearms the police never even had a chance of stopping while there too focused on "oh does this look big and scary"