Gun Law Logic
Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:24 pm
I dropped into a friends gunshop today, just for a chat and a browse.
There was a 1915 BSA SMLE Mk III* that had been converted just post WW II to a .410 Shotgun, these were done by the Lithgow Small Arms factory for Slazengers of Sydney. This particular one is a nice example and better than the one that I use for rabbits on a couple of properties where using a .22rf might be a bit of a danger due to the proximity of a road.
Now a few weeks back I was negotiating to purchase a WW II .303 Lithgow made Sniper's Rifle so I applied for and received a Permit To Acquire (PTA) for a Category 'B' Centre fire rifle. Unfortunately the Sniper deal fell through.
Produced the PTA but the mate said "No good, must be for a Category 'A' firearm".
I'd forgotten this little detail so must now apply for another PTA, this time for a Cat 'A' firearm and when I get it, after a couple of weeks, travel 121 Ks there and the same back, just to pick it up.
'A' is a lesser category than 'B' so one wonders what masterly piece of Bureaucratic nonsense produced the situation where one has a permit to purchase the highest powered legally available firearm with an accurate range in excess of 1,500 metres yet the same permit doesn't cover a firearm with an effective range of 40 metres.
My licence is for both Category 'A' and 'B'.
My Sllazenger conversion doesn't have a choke whereas the new one (when I get it
) has the muzzle swaged to form a rather tight looking choke; must compare them.
There was a 1915 BSA SMLE Mk III* that had been converted just post WW II to a .410 Shotgun, these were done by the Lithgow Small Arms factory for Slazengers of Sydney. This particular one is a nice example and better than the one that I use for rabbits on a couple of properties where using a .22rf might be a bit of a danger due to the proximity of a road.
Now a few weeks back I was negotiating to purchase a WW II .303 Lithgow made Sniper's Rifle so I applied for and received a Permit To Acquire (PTA) for a Category 'B' Centre fire rifle. Unfortunately the Sniper deal fell through.
Produced the PTA but the mate said "No good, must be for a Category 'A' firearm".
I'd forgotten this little detail so must now apply for another PTA, this time for a Cat 'A' firearm and when I get it, after a couple of weeks, travel 121 Ks there and the same back, just to pick it up.
'A' is a lesser category than 'B' so one wonders what masterly piece of Bureaucratic nonsense produced the situation where one has a permit to purchase the highest powered legally available firearm with an accurate range in excess of 1,500 metres yet the same permit doesn't cover a firearm with an effective range of 40 metres.
My licence is for both Category 'A' and 'B'.
My Sllazenger conversion doesn't have a choke whereas the new one (when I get it
) has the muzzle swaged to form a rather tight looking choke; must compare them.