Jack V wrote:It's not illegal to fix your own personal gun but you can't work on anyone else's unless you are a licenced smith or club armourer .
There is nothing in the law that I have seen that limits what you can do to your own gun other than illegal modifications . As long as it stays legal conformation and correctly registered Police don't seem concerned. The onus is on you to make sure you take any changes to a dealer or gunsmith for any registration adjustments that may be required like a cartridge / calibre change . If you change a barrel then make sure you destroy the old worn out barrel or hand it in to the smith . Keeping them laying around will get you in trouble .
bigfellascott wrote:Why do you have to destroy old barrels?
1290 wrote:Because in New Soviet Wales; Barrels are treated as a firearm and need to be registereda spare barrel, say the old one you screwed of would need to be registered.....else youre committing an offence - so if you're not a lic dealer, to change the barrel yourself, to avoid registering the new barrel, I guess you'll need to screw off the old one, destroy/dispose then acquire new one.
You can even send a barrel by post......
As long as you're tinkering with your own rifle that should be cool, if you are manufacturing then I hear they get kind of antsie of you do it in your garage without the necessary dealer licence.
Jack V wrote:The key word is "spare " barrel . Once you replace a barrel and have the old one laying about it becomes technically a "spare " barrel and needing separate registration on each barrel . The one on the gun and the one that is spare . If you destroy the old barrel there is no spare barrel so the one on the gun does not need to be separately identified . When you register a spare barrel for an action you get numbers to put on both barrels . If a barrel is not screwed and chambered yet it's not classed as a spare barrel .
Jack V wrote:No mate not off hand but the numbers on my switch barrels and the recording of each barrel on the rego certificate for the gun indicates it is the law .
Confirmed by two Police inspections also and both times they wanted to see the extra barrels and check the numbers .
1290 wrote:Because in New Soviet Wales; Barrels are treated as a firearm
Warrigul wrote:Barrels are considered a spare part in TAS and don't need to be registered or serialised.
RealNick wrote:1290 wrote:Because in New Soviet Wales; Barrels are treated as a firearm
Same in Victoria.
fergal wrote:can I do a course to get a license?