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Aussie rifle handlin' ban

bearridge

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All our downunder mates,

This iz what I wuz askin' last week.

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Australia Post... ban on handling rifles and parts has been reversed.
February 17 2007 at 6:23 AM Anonymous (Login Yrrah)

The Federal Minister responsible Helen Coonan has made a Press release to this effect. This is a huge turnabout for us and should be widely noted. The Sporting Shooters Association of Australia ( equivalent to NRA ) entered the fray some time ago on behalf of legitimate Aussie shooters:

http://www.minister.dcita.gov.au/media/ ... n_welcomed

Kind regards, Yrrah.

It doesn't reverse any of our laws Dutch ..... and we can own all excepting semi and full
February 17 2007, 6:34 PM

automatics..... We just have to jump through hoops and it costs us some.

What happened some time ago was that our national postal service, Australia Post, unilaterally declared they would no longer allow guns and gun parts to be mailed internally or internationally by them. That left us with just couriers who also could at any time decide to pull the plug. This reversal of Australia Post's decision again allows us to mail stuff for repair, or whatever, again. And the fact that the Federal minister, a lady I might add, has endorsed and welcomed the decision has to be a plus.
It is also a wrap over the knuckles for AP too because they were refusing to mail fully legal stuff............ Kind regards, Harry.

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bearridge

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dawallace45

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Bearridge

The silly part of the whole Australia Post decision not to allow firearms was a real pain in the arse as under the regulations it was illegal for a license holder to send a firearm any other way except registered post , we weren't legally able to send via courier , although in some strange arrangement a licensed firearm dealer was able to use couriers but not all courier companies would transport firearms

David
 

dawallace45

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As a further aside to the story , some time back a mate in Kansas wanted to send me a Lyman aperture sight for my Lee Enfield No1 , now the problem was that if it was classified as a gun part it wouldn't be allowed to come via AP , I talked to customs and they said that it was a offence to lie on a customs declaration and if it was labelled as a Lyman aperture sight AP would refuse it so what I really needed to do was find a way for my mate in Kansas to label it for customs so that it was truthful but didn't mention any thing about firearms or gun parts , so I asked the mate to label it as antique Lyman aperture and had no problems , I had already talked to the post office and had been told that if it was labelled as for a firearm it would be refused , so this was worked out well

David
 

bearridge

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Friend David,

It sounds like Monty Python....not real guviment. :wink:

It aint agin the law ta send a pellet gun here, but some midget minds dont know that a pellet gun aint a firearm. I had one refuse me once. After that I jest claimed it wuz an empty compressed air trash removal cylinder. :wink:

Do ya'll have a Minister of Silly Walks? :mrgreen:

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bearridge

ps Yrrah iz a fine fellow, a good shot 'n a sho nuff geezer. I fergit where he lives on the bottom side.
 

bearridge

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Friend David,

Up here we caint throw stones at nobody's guviment, cept Cuba, London 'n Venezuela. :cry:

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bearridge

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