Khan wrote:The prison guard says "here, bite down on this".
RDobber wrote:There have been a few from memory.
One of the guys had a pair or rifles stolen from home and the police recovered them both and returned them to him.
Someone had their car stolen while it had two rifles in the boot too I think? Don't know what the outcome of that one was.
Warrigul wrote:He whined about it for ages but didn't get much sympathy.
Warrigul wrote:If it is the one I am thinking about he pleaded guilty to improper storage of firearms and was fined $800 and had a hard time getting permits for the replacements.
Yelp wrote:Warrigul wrote:If it is the one I am thinking about he pleaded guilty to improper storage of firearms and was fined $800 and had a hard time getting permits for the replacements.
I'm surprised his licensed wasn't canned completely?
Warrigul wrote:A lot of people rubbish firearm services down here but they are capable of seeing the big picture(in most cases) and in this case there was no intent to do wrong and they accepted that he thought it was legally acceptable to keep them in a locked boot when away from home.
Lorgar wrote:Warrigul wrote:A lot of people rubbish firearm services down here but they are capable of seeing the big picture(in most cases) and in this case there was no intent to do wrong and they accepted that he thought it was legally acceptable to keep them in a locked boot when away from home.
I think there is some ambiguity on that in the firearms act as well.
There was a thing in one of the SSAA mag 2 months ago or something on "guns in the car", don't know if you caught it?
The gist of it anyway... It was a lawyers arguments for someone who had firearms stolen from their car and was being charged with improper storage, but according to the lawyers arguments they were stolen while being "used and transported" not "stored" which is what's covered in the firearms act.
I have the article cut out at home. I'll find it and post it here.
loaded wrote:Thus the taskforces checking gun owners that started 2 week ago in parts of Vic. They (police) are showing no-tolerance on the inspections, storage not right you will lose your guns. I know of a few that have lost their guns and licences suspended, so get your storage right.
loaded wrote:They (police) are showing no-tolerance on the inspections, storage not right you will lose your guns.
loaded wrote:Some may say well too bad they broke the law.