By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-25 13:02:07 | Updated at 2024-10-25 15:30:47
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Paperwork Disputes End with 150 Guns Confiscated in Australia
AmmoLand ^ | October 22, 2024 | Dean Weingarten
Posted on 10/25/2024 6:00:20 AM PDT by marktwain
On October 16, 2024, 9news.com.au in Australia published an article about police confiscation of 150 guns. Most of the guns were confiscated at what appears to be a gun shop in Liverpool, a suburb of Sidney. A man and a woman were arrested. Both were released. Later, the man was arrested again and charged. A man and a woman were arrested in Port Macquarie when a search of a property at Bobs Creek turned up two replica guns and several boxes of ammunition. From 9news.com:
Over 150 guns have been seized and three people have been charged after an investigation into fake firearm licences across New South Wales.
Police allege businesses based in Liverpool, in Sydney’s southwest, and Bobs Creek, south of Port Macquarie, had provided over 1000 people with fraudulent permission to shoot licences for a fee, which allowed them to obtain gun licences.
The majority of those people were from south-west Sydney, with some linked to organised crime.
Bobs Creek is a rural area about 15 miles (23 kilometers South of Port Macquarie.
In the current case, three people have been charged. All are out on bail. One is a 50-year-old firearms dealer from Sydney. He is charged with 17 counts of failing to keep labels and records and giving ammunition to a person not authorized to use it.
One is a 48-year-old woman from Port Macquarie. She is charged with 14 counts of making a false document for financial advantage.
The third person is a 39-year-old man from Port Macquarie. He is charged with two counts of possessing an unauthorized firearm and possessing ammunition without holding a license. This correspondent’s speculation is the “unauthorized firearms” charges are for the two replica guns.
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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; banglist; confiscation; nsw
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The restrictions on gun ownership and use in Australia are multitudinous, bureaucratic, and severe.
The charge for possessing replica guns is the same as for possessing real guns in New South Wales law.
1 posted on 10/25/2024 6:00:20 AM PDT by marktwain
To: marktwain
Dark blue arrow shows location of Bobs Creek on Australia’s East Coast.
2 posted on 10/25/2024 6:01:40 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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