Download wrote:That's not entrapment.
Entrapment is where an officer encourages you to commit a crime you would not ordinarily commit. For example if an undercover officer tried to sell you stolen goods and you said yes, that would not be entrapment. But if an undercover officer tried to sell you stolen goods, you said no, and then the undercover officer said something like "please man, I need the money to pay for my mum's medical treatment" or "if i don't pay back this mob boss soon he'll kill me" and you said yes, that would be entrapment.
To claim entrapment you must prove first that you would not ordinarily have committed the crime.
The problem is that by any reasonable standard, allowing a family member access to your firearms is no crime.
Of course I'm not saying you won't get into trouble if this is found out, but this lack of reasonableness is the basic problem with all of the gun laws that have been brought in since 1996.
If one does tell the wife, make sure she knows to play dumb if a copper comes around. I don't say that flippantly.
I looked up entrapment in Butterworth's Law Dictionary. I'll put the whole article up one day, but for now, let me say I found it equivocal about the matter.
From what I can make out, entrapment is not as firmly established as a defence in Australia as it is in America, but nor is it completely irrelevant.
Download's comment contains a neat explanation of what entrapment is and what it isn't. However, I'm not completely sure if entrapment is in fact only doing what someone wouldn't ordinarily do as explained by Download.
I wonder if the disgusting practice of police scalp hunting of LAFO's by asking their partners for access to their storage has ever been tested in court.
To finish up, I wonder what prompted the cops to do this to this man. Why couldn't they simply have made an agreed time? What were they trying to prove?
Totally gutless, whether it was their call they decided on the spot or whether they were told to go out and do that to someone.
"I was only following orders."