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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Toy Gun Licensing

ANY ITEM that looks like a gun will have to be licensed under several changes to the Weapons Act being considered by the Queensland State Government.

Even guns made out of materials as unlikely as soap or plastic may have to be kept under lock and key if they could "reasonably be taken to be a weapon".

"If it looks like a gun and feels like a gun, it will have to be licensed," said a government source.

"We just want to know where they are."

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Reporter Robyn Ironside then adds, "It is unclear how the draft affects toy guns." ?!?

I'm guessing that Queensland is Australia's Maryland. Anyone? If this isn't farcical enough for you so far, try this.

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Failure to license an imitation weapon will carry a maximum $4500 fine under the proposals and incorrect storage carries a penalty of $750.

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Just stab me in the liver and be done with it. By the bye - did you ever look at Dillingers wood gun up close

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H/T DanaLoesch

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Anonymous said...: I think my favorite comment has been "I have the game 'clue' and it contains a tiny gun, do I have to license that?

Does this mean all toys will have to have a serial number?; 9/7/10, 6:04 PM
franco (likes a panini) fellini said...: They don't merely want to know where the toy guns are. They want to know who the gun lovers are and get them in the system. As early as possible, of course.

Then we'll see studies correlating school violence to toy guns at home, leading them to ban all toy guns.; 9/7/10, 6:14 PM
pdwalker said...: Australians are quite cool otherwise, but they do LOVE their nanny governments.; 9/7/10, 10:42 PM
Anonymous said...: what a pain, locking up all those wooden sticks.; 9/8/10, 12:02 AM
Chuck said...: not to mention cordless drills, replica phasers, all index finger/thumb combinations....; 9/8/10, 12:25 AM
molonlabe28 said...: I feel safer now.

The inmates are truly running the assylum.

G'day, mates.; 9/8/10, 10:57 AM
Anonymous said...: I saw a stick the other day that looked like *ghasp* a gun....; 9/8/10, 3:00 PM
molonlabe28 said...: When I was young, we played with toy guns all the time.

Actually, we vacillated among, cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, and smear the queer - all meritorious young boy pursuits in their own rights.

We used to shoot 22s in the basement (into a target-catcher designed for indoor rimfire shooting). Today that would be an environmental felony.

The way most young men are raised, it's no small wonder they can find their testicles when they finally drop - although they, at that point, have been sexually conversant (and usually active) for years by that time.

My father started taking me to car races at a young age, we fished and cleaned, cooked and ate what we caught, we rode mini-bikes and my father's Jeep Willy, we hunted snakes and groundhogs, and we generally did boy (as opposed to eunich) activities.

He taught me about honor, bravery and character and the nuns, priests and Christian brothers kicked my ass all the way through grade school.

I wax sentimental about all of this, but what was there to complain about?; 9/8/10, 7:16 PM
Anonymous said...: Actually Queensland is relatively conservative as Australia goes, I'd have expected something like this in Adelaide; 9/9/10, 9:16 AM

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Toy Gun Licensing

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