threeseven
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I checked my PO box today and to my great joy, I found my Class A & B Rifle License had arrived. It only took the police 2 months to process the application - quite extraordinary considering my cousin's application took a little over 4 months... and he's a police officer. It's not fair to think of it as 2 months of waiting though - I've been wanting a rifle license since I was about 14. My license allows me to use any legal weapons for recreation (hunting/shooting on friend's property) and in shooting clubs/ranges... which, I suppose, is also recreation. The license itself is a delightful peach colour. I look like some kind of dishevelled, Whiskey-soaked hobo in the picture but then I guess everyone does on these sort of things.
I am now entitled to own, as quoted from the Queensland Weapons Categories Regulation 1997, Weapons Act 1990:
Category A
- Miniature cannon under 120cm in barrel length that is a black powder and muzzle loading cannon, depicting a scale model of an historical artillery piece or naval gun (YES! I ALWAYS WANTED ONE OF THESE!)
- Air rifle
- A blank-fire firearm at least 75 cm in length
- Rimfire rifle (other than a self-loading rimfire rifle)
- Single or double-barrel shotgun
- Powerhead
- Muzzle-loading firearm
- Single shot centrefire rifle
- Double barrel centrefire rifle
- Repeating centrefire rifle
- Break-action shotgun and rifle combination
In case anyone is interested, here is the Class R weapons list. These are, for all intents and purpose, restricted. Pick how many of these you own, are allowed to own, or can use to defend yourself with in a country with real gun laws.
Category R
- Machinegun or submachine gun that is fully automatic in its operation and actuated by energy developed when it is being fired or has multiple revolving barrels, and any replica or facsimile of a machinegun or submachinegun that is not a toy
- Firearm capable of firing 50 calibre BMG cartridge ammunition
- Antipersonnel gas and an antipersonnel substance of a corrosive, noxious or irritant nature or that is capable of causing bodily harm, and any weapon capable of discharging the gas or substance by any means
- Acoustical antipersonnel device of an intensity that is capable of causing bodily harm
- Electrical antipersonnel device of an intensity that is capable of causing bodily harm;
- A hand grenade, other than an inert hand grenade, and an antipersonnel mine
- Rocket launcher, recoilless rifle, antitank rifle, a bazooka or a rocket propelled grenade type launcher
- Mortar, all artillery and any incendiary or inflammable device containing any substance capable of causing bodily harm or damage to property
- Any crossbow designed to be discharged by the use of 1 hand (that is not a toy pistol crossbow) that when discharged is capable of causing damage or injury to property or capable of causing bodily harm
- A chinese throwing iron that is a hard non-flexible plate having 3 or more radiating points with 1 or more sharp edges in the shape of a polygon, trefoil, cross, star, diamond or geometric shape and constructed or designed to be thrown as a weapon
- A flail or similar device constructed and designed as a weapon consisting of in part a striking head and which, if used offensively, is capable of causing bodily harm
- A device known as a ‘manrikiguisari’ or ‘kusari’, consisting of a length of rope, cord, wire or chain fastened at each end to a geometrically shaped weight or handgrip and constructed or designed for use as a weapon
- A device known as a knuckleduster or any device made or adapted for use as a knuckleduster and which, if used offensively against a person, is capable of causing bodily harm
- A weighted glove designed or constructed to be used as a weapon
- A mace or any similar article (other than a ceremonial mace made for and used solely as a symbol of authority on ceremonial occasions)
- A silencer or other device or contrivance made or used, or capable of being used or intended to be used, for reducing the sound caused by discharging a firearm
- A device, not a toy, constructed or designed as a telescopic baton, the extension of which is actuated by the operation of a mechanical trigger.