@juststarting Can’t you computer nerd from home though?
Don’t have to much to say about WA firearms laws as i still don’t know the in’s and outs, have enough on my plate to deal with at this stage, new apprenticeship and all, but from a few things i was chatting to with a copper yesterday it’s not all doom and gloom just yet
Yes and no, need access to people a lot of the time, although covid has really re-defined it. Type of stuff I do though, companies are generally in CBD locations and won’t consider 100% remote work.
Re: WA gun laws, my offer to help you is still on the table mate, I will give it a good and loving home. it will be adored and in familiar settings. It will visit @bentaz and be around familiar people. Have a heart!
Once you get your head around them they are workable. it is a problem when you want more than 1 firearm in the same caliber or calibers close together like 303 and 308 etc. Then there is the wait time for approvals and of course the cost lol… Won’t scare you anymore, otherwise you won’t go to sleep.
Tbh, I don’t think I could ever live in the country. I would stick out like a sore thumb lol.
I get that there are loads of benefits like how it’s quieter, and there’s less traffic, but you don’t really notice these things in suburbia anyway.
@1Fatman - Does it mean the generic A/B licence limits you a bit in terms of collecting? Meaning you have to get a collectors licence or something to own a multiples of similar calibres?
I think where you grew up is a massive part of it. I grew up in Ballarat, went to uni in Melbourne and then got my first teaching job in Swan Hill. That was quite eye opening in a lot of ways. I am certainly glad I didn’t stay in Swan Hill but it did make me appreciate certain elements of the country I didn’t appreciate before.
Must we discuss Covaids…get enough of that elsewhere…or talk it in the Covaids topics, that no one wants to read…rant over
Mate as for sticking out like a sore thumb, in ballarat there are plenty of Asian, African, Indians and people from all over the world, a few less atm without the usual foreign students Fed uni. But don’t ever let not looking like a redneck stop you from enjoying the best thing about living in Straya mate!
Those towers make the cruise ships look like high satiation hospital wards. Someone in the health department should of seen that coming after the cruise ship experiences. I bet they didn’t have to share a laundromat.
Noted.
Correct, you would need to get a collectors license. You might get away with getting say 2 x .22’s but anymore would be stretching your luck. A lot of the reason is they will ask why you need more than one so if you are great with words and can come up with a great reason why they might consider it.
I’ve got 2 x 243’s on an open license and you are right they tried to stop that but I think they try that with everyone. Had them tell a friend their 303 is too similar to the 6.5-284 and had to put the 303 on a collectors before they approved the 6.5. This was done over the phone unfortunately otherwise we could have given him significant reasons explaining the difference to tell them.
They even had to the nerve to tell me they only approve the gun not the optics as I used the use of my thermal as my genuine need. I promptly replied they actually license my genuine need which encompasses the whole facet of the package not just the firearm.
You just need to play their game. They said a 308 is too big for cats so I got a 6.5CM to shoot cats. Be specific with your target species, don’t have everything on your application, save them up. One is for foxes, another for cats, another for wild dogs, another for bulk culling of roos and so on. Rifle configuration including weight, projectile used, optics all come into it.
Not going to use you heavy culling rig to shoot while on foot in scrub are you ?
They don’t control or register them but we have to be very specific with our genuine and this means including the specific use of the firearm. It’s a sliding scale, your first gun you usually get away with one or two sentences for a genuine need. For gun 14 you need at least two paragraphs.
Fuck that, for gun 67 in Vic I’ll just pay my 15 bucks n tick the hunting box!
You are my idol.
Yep same here in Qld, i use the same three words for every pta “sports target shooting” i’ve got plenty of multiples in the same calibre without any hassle, even half a dozen in some calibres without question on a std licence.
Na mate, I just have cheap tastes and a few extra years under my belt!
You know how to ruin a persons day 
Ignorance is bliss in the Communist nation of WA, we have no idea what is happening in the real world.
Mate i don’t know how you guys live there, i reckon they must secretly give you all free coffee & donuts every morning, or something that us east coasters don’t know about. Otherwise being there just doesn’t compute. 
I think we should bomb some democracy into them like we did to Iraq and Afghanistan 
