bladeracer wrote:AZZA'S HJ47 wrote:I've heard that in NSW if you have a barrel separate from an action it has to have it's own serial number and be registered? I don't know if you need a PtA though for a barrel though.
Nope, you need a lawful reason to have it but its no different from any other spare part.
No PTA, no paperwork.
In NSW rifles with dual calibers is no doubt a compliance clusterfuck and I'm not even sure where people stand legally on the issue except plenty of people have barrels that fit rifles in a different caliber than whats on the paperwork. Its probably against the law to replace or change a barrel yourself to begin with unless the rifle is designed to have user changeable barrels and if your changing it into a different caliber than whats listed then that's also a crime. I imagine the correct thing to do is to advise the registry its a dual caliber rifle and get the additional ones added to the registration.
Plenty of people out there have change barrels on actions with a single caliber listed, all bought in good faith and they would have no idea its illegal.
The calibers written on rego papers are another clusterfuck for the registry as well, I've got things registered in "8mm", "7.62", ".22", "450", "303", "58", "7.7MM"
When the data is that bad, whats the point in having it. The 7.7MM one is a f***ing Siamese mauser in 8x52R lol