JWD40 wrote:trekin wrote:bladeracer wrote:I don't consider the gun safe to be for security against gun thieves, more for preventing accidents by people accessing them simply because...guns. Gun safes are the very minimal security the authorities felt they could force us to comply with at our own expense, while appeasing the anti-gun nuts.
For actual security against theft you're better off spending your money on a security system, CCTV and making the room/building more difficult to enter. Multiple safes multiply the amount of time required for thieves to enter them all, also burning up more cutting discs, batteries, and gas to do so. Sirens and strobe lights inside the room make it very difficult for them to concentrate on the job. A smoke machine makes it virtually impossible, but is getting expensive.
Anybody that really wants your guns will simply grab one of your family members and threaten them until you open even the most impenetrable of safes...
Also, doing this in QLD might lead to charges of being in procession of a Cat D weapon.
I don't understand the link to Cat D weapons, how would this lead to charges of possession ?
Thanks mate, for pointing out that glaring mistake, should have read "Cat R" (have edited my comment). This is the highly restricted category of weapons that machine guns, tasers, CS spray, silencers/moderators etc come under here in QLD.
Section 8 (e) of the Weapons Categories Regulation 1997
8 Category R weapons
(1) Each of the following is a category R weapon—
(a) a machine gun or submachine gun that is fully automatic
in its operation and actuated by energy developed when
it is being fired or has multiple revolving barrels, and
any replica or facsimile of a machine gun or submachine
gun that is not a toy;
(b) a unit or device that is capable of being used for
converting any firearm to a weapon mentioned in
paragraph (a);
(c) a firearm capable of firing 50 calibre BMG cartridge
ammunition;
(d) an antipersonnel gas, and an antipersonnel substance, of
a corrosive, noxious or irritant nature or that is capable
of causing bodily harm, and any weapon capable of
discharging the gas or substance by any means, other
than a gas or substance and any weapon capable of
discharging the gas or substance that is primarily
designed for the control of native or feral animals;
(e) an acoustical antipersonnel device of an intensity that is
capable of causing bodily harm;
(f) an electrical antipersonnel device of an intensity that is
capable of causing bodily harm;
(g) a hand grenade, other than an inert hand grenade, and an
antipersonnel mine;
(h) a silencer or other device or contrivance made or used,
or capable of being used or intended to be used, for
reducing the sound caused by discharging a firearm;
(i) a rocket launcher, recoilless rifle, antitank rifle, a
bazooka or a rocket propelled grenade type launcher;
(j) a mortar, all artillery and any incendiary or inflammable
device containing any substance capable of causing
bodily harm or damage to property, other than an
incendiary or inflammable device primarily designed for
vegetation management.
(2) A thing mentioned in subsection (1)(a), (c), (i) or (j) is not a
category R weapon if it is a public monument.
Bodily harm is defined in the QLD Criminal Code as;
"bodily harm means any bodily injury which interferes with health or comfort."
To have the effect mentioned by Bladeracer, a siren would need an output pressure wave of at least 110 DB (most burglar alarm siren are now rated at 120 DB), and as we know, sound pressure wave at these levels will cause not only temporary damage to hearing, but also some permanent loss as well.