Owning books on gunmaking

[OutbackBoy36]

Hi Everyone, I'm Cameron from QLD.

Does anyone know if we are allowed to buy/own books on making guns?
As opposed to fixing guns.
I am intereteed in the process and mechanics of it.

Thanks,
Cameron

[Blackened]

You're effectively just asking for a book about machining.

The design and mechanics of firearms are well documented and readily available. No national secrets here.

For safe operation and maintenance as much as anything. It's not a crime to know how something works safely.

If you had a Bridgeport mill and a lathe in the garage along with the book, the fuzz might have questions for you though

[Jackaroo]

There was talk some years ago about 'registering' lathes and mills as 'precursors' ....... but they saw the light hopefully.

It's like saying a hacksaw is a precursor to shortening a shotgun.

[Oldbloke]

IIRC soon in WA it might be an issue. Could be corrected tho.

[Blackened]

It's like saying a hacksaw is a precursor to shortening a shotgun.

You might have to register your knee as a precursor too, just in case you have any plans to snap a timber stock over it and further shorten it for all your gangster activities

[alexjones]

No its not. Also knowing how to make cocaine, heroine, synthetic testosterone etc etc is not a crime either.

Having the know how and having the apparatus to produce the product are two seperate things.

[on_one_wheel]

Fair question given we do gave books that are banned in Australia.

Pretty sad we need to worry about stuff like that.

[Die Judicii]

You're effectively just asking for a book about machining.

The design and mechanics of firearms are well documented and readily available. No national secrets here.

For safe operation and maintenance as much as anything. It's not a crime to know how something works safely.

If you had a Bridgeport mill and a lathe in the garage along with the book, the fuzz might have questions for you though

The Law making guys in WA would no doubt love to have an opportunity to make you eat them thar words.

[Blackened]

The Law making guys in WA would no doubt love to have an opportunity to make you eat them thar words.

They'll have to see if their big stick can reach from Perth to Sydney, as I ain't going there

[Bugman]

I have a lathe and a mill and books on machining, that I have had for years. My business and nobody elses.