Just get your licence then mate.
Your options are basically “Get your licence” or “Find a shop that sells antiques as antiques, go there, and buy it off them in person”.
might well have to was hoping to avoid the headache until i could get the 150kg safe but it seems im out of options any ideas on paperwork through covid i hear its a bit of an uphilll battle at the moment might need to do it sooner than later
You don’t need a safe to get your licence, not until you want to buy a Cat A/B.
Other places to buy are off people direct. If you go along to your local BP shooting range or day out. A lot of the people when I went to one were using antique rifles as you would expect, many unlicensed.
Wombat is correct in that gun safes over a certain weight do not require securing. However, antique firearms do have to be kept in a safe, even though they do not require a firearms license or registration.
Keith.
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That’s not accurate. Afaik.
If this is not accurate, please explain.
Keith.
States vary - In Victoria they do not have to be stored in a safe.
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Thank you. I assumed that as he accessed the NSW data base that he was in NSW. The information I supplied was & is correct for NSW.
Keith.
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In Queensland, antique longarms and “pre-percussion” handguns are explicitly not weapons and do not need to be licensed, registered, or stored in a gun safe. Antique cap & ball revolvers do not need to be licensed or stored in a gun safe, but do need to be registered.
Yep, I concur with Keith. Original post was in relation to NSW, therefore it don’t matter for shit what happens in other states.
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Uhhh the beauty of NATIONAL firearms agreement.
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About the only thing that the states agreed to was to fuck over LFO’s.
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Doesn’t matter, these interstate perspective on these things is important - especially because we’re talking about a year-old OP and people stumble across these threads via Google search and might get the wrong info if it’s not properly presented.
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Agree. Keith should have stated, ‘in NSW…’ and JS should have stated, ’ in Vic…’
Blanket remarks about firearms legislation are flaunt with pitfalls.
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All the Acts and regs from each state are posted in the legal section
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Stop your bitching! That lovely little clause in our constitution that prevents the Feds from making gun laws is all that stopped Little Johnny from taking your prized possessions and turning them into an EF Falcon. I mean if they were made into SS Group A’s, I could be satisfied.
'Murica! My 2A! etc…etc…
oh dear
I don’t think it matters anymore at any rate. We haven’t seen the O.P back since they asked the question. I reckon it was just a fishing exercise, someone looking for a loophole to acquire firearms without a licence.
Happy for them to prove otherwise.
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