JesseW97 wrote:Hay there, I recently submitted my firearms license and I know its a little pre mature but I've already bought a safe and it will be drilled/bolted into concrete in a permanent building. I want to know if the police come to do an inspection of your storage before your licence is approved or is it after you have been accepted? I selected No on all the options for alternative storage (I hope that was the right thing to do if storing where I live), but if they come to inspect before your application is accepted then I want to bolt it in ASAP. So please if someone can let me know if they inspect before you have your license and also is there an option to call my local police station and arrange an inspection and if so do I do that after I have my license or before?
I want to note I do not own any firearms so it wouldn't matter if the police came to inspect before I get my license I just want to be prepared so I can get a better understanding of the whole process.
Cheers, hope to hear back from you guys soon.
bladeracer wrote:JesseW97 wrote:Hay there, I recently submitted my firearms license and I know its a little pre mature but I've already bought a safe and it will be drilled/bolted into concrete in a permanent building. I want to know if the police come to do an inspection of your storage before your licence is approved or is it after you have been accepted? I selected No on all the options for alternative storage (I hope that was the right thing to do if storing where I live), but if they come to inspect before your application is accepted then I want to bolt it in ASAP. So please if someone can let me know if they inspect before you have your license and also is there an option to call my local police station and arrange an inspection and if so do I do that after I have my license or before?
I want to note I do not own any firearms so it wouldn't matter if the police came to inspect before I get my license I just want to be prepared so I can get a better understanding of the whole process.
Cheers, hope to hear back from you guys soon.
I'd be surprised if they used resources inspecting safes for people that may never decide to own any firearms.
Peter988 wrote:You may never get checked. It’s a bit of a lottery how they do it. They will ring first. They did mine last year. Took them 13 years to get round to it.
rc42 wrote:Some states have minimum requirements for the bolts into the wall or floor, QLD doesn't, as long as it doesn't budge when a cop gives it a good shove you'll be OK. If you're visiting Bunnings for your own bolts then just get the longest and thickest that your wall/drill will cope with and put in as many as you like, I have 11 in total, through the bottom and back, my save is never coming out of the house.
I also welded lots of additional re-enforcement steel inside it as I was waiting so long for my license and had nothing better to do.
Don't store the bolts with the ammo, even though its sensible for additional security the bolt is a major firearm part so should be in separate storage to the ammo. Empty magazines can be with or in the firearms but you must have bolt removed or a breech flag of some sort inserted. It has to be obvious that each firearm is not possible to discharge before even picking it up. Trigger locks are optional but certainly a good idea.
I've heard of inspections being cancelled when they realize there are no firearms being stored so you're not likely to be hearing from them any time soon, especially with police resources being stretched due to Covid.