Die Judicii wrote:Has anyone here seen the ones advertised from time to time on "Used Guns" ?
Made by an engineering company in Tasmania (I think by memory)
If this is true, how do they get around the law ?
I thought they were still illegal in Australia.
Wombat wrote:There are pest controllers that use suppressors legally around Melbourne, on golf courses,large cemeteries and the like for Rabbit and Fox.
Wombat wrote:There are pest controllers that use suppressors legally around Melbourne, on golf courses,large cemeteries and the like for Rabbit and Fox.
Oldbloke wrote:Yeh, not cheap. But do they do much on the bigger stuff like 223 or bigger? They are all supersonic.
Oldbloke wrote:Yeh, not cheap. But do they do much on the bigger stuff like 223 or bigger? They are all supersonic.
Faedy wrote:You need to load subsonic for them to have an effect.
Once you break the speed of sound, the ":crack" will be there
ash_hendo wrote:I was just reading this in the NSW regulations prohibited weapons section - " Any firearm to which there is attached any article or device capable of muffling, reducing or stopping the noise created by firing the firearm."
The "or device capable of muffling, reducing or stopping the noise created by firing the firearm" is interesting, so a pillow is a prohibited weapon under NSW law.
womble wrote:Wait what.
Gainfull employment shooting bunnies on a golf course with a suppressed 10/22.
And you can take your golf clubs to work.
This can’t be real.
Do you get quads or just use the golf carts.
animalpest wrote:Bladeracer wrote :
Rose is a conservation volunteer and they have had rangers with suppressors brought in to deal with foxes in wetlands in Perth.
Well if that actually happened then the "rangers" were breaking WA law.
Rangers or anyone else cannot use suppressor for foxes in WA
straightshooter wrote:ash_hendo wrote:I was just reading this in the NSW regulations prohibited weapons section - " Any firearm to which there is attached any article or device capable of muffling, reducing or stopping the noise created by firing the firearm."
The "or device capable of muffling, reducing or stopping the noise created by firing the firearm" is interesting, so a pillow is a prohibited weapon under NSW law.
The curious thing about laws and regulations is that they mean exactly what the words say, not what a reader hopes, likes or pretends they mean.
Notwithstanding deliberately vague 'catchall' legislation.
Assuming the reader is not an ESL type person then to that attentive reader the key word in the above quoted portion of the law would be "attached".
Thus any improvised muffler would thus be deemed prohibited only when in the act of preparing for or used in actual improvised muffling while attached or having been attached to the firearm.
animalpest wrote:The only suppressor legal in WA are those used by APB officers and only for Starlings.
Everyone else is certainly illegal.