Australian police find 328 guns, 4.2 tons of ammo at farm.

NBCNews.com ^ | 11/28/2013 | Alexander Smith, NBC News contributor

[Carriage Hill]

A father and his two sons have been arrested in Australia after police found a $3 million arsenal of more than 300 guns and 4.2 tons of ammunition at their farm, police said Thursday.

The men, aged 69, 46 and 42, were charged with possessing restricted firearms after police found the weapons stockpile stashed in sheds at their property in Monto, Queensland.

A selection of the firearms from a huge stockpile of 328 guns and 4.2 tons of ammo recovered by police in Queensland, Australia.

Among the 328 weapons were military-style automatic rifles, some of which were worth up to $50,000 each, and Glock handguns worth $10,000, police said.

“This is certainly one of the largest hauls of firearms, ammunition and weapons we have uncovered,” said Detective Superintendent Jon Wacker of the Queensland Police. “These firearms are very disturbing.”

[Nuc 1.1]

So?

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

They are way out numbered by the pussies that have been bread there just as here.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The only interesting thing I saw was a BSA #4 Martini Cadet training rifle.

[Carriage Hill]

Depending upon the caliber and size of cases, that’s a lot of pallets of ammo. I do some PT work for a large FFL here in PA, unloading shipments of firearms/ammo/optics/accessories etc, from sealed trucks with police escorts, and there’s usually 500-750 lbs of ammo on 3’x4’ wood pallets, again depending on caliber and case size.

[melsec]

Shotguns and bolt action guns are not illegal - probably just not registered. Semi-auto or automatic guns are banned.

Mel

[ez]

I hope so. This makes me a piker with significantly less than .1 tons of ammo. Nothing to see here.

[Utilizer]

Bloody hell! Unless the blokes were named Achmed bin Obama, Mohammed Al- Mohammed, or Ali Al' Iiaxenfree I don't quite see what the problem is! Why aren't the cops going after all the muzzie yoobs harrassing and upsetting all the lovely lasses in bathing suits on the beaches? Or the muzzies shouting insults at the ones not dressed in the muzzie-mandated all-black burial shrouds in the shopping-malls and public ways instead? THIS is somehow more important???

Unless of course they are in actuality breaking up a found terrorist cell, in which case I expect those firearms to be placed up for worldwide auction quite soon.

[mylife]

Now THAT is a weapons cache!

[Vendome]

Damn. I wish I had that Armory.

[mylife]

rifles featuring telescopic lenses..?

[bandleader]

Who”RATTED”Them Out????????????????????????????

[Yo-Yo]

In this picture they're all either bolt actions or lever actions as far as I can tell. Not very scary.

These must be the "scary" ones. Semi-autos are a big no-no Down Under unless you have a special needs hunting license.

But this is the line that Free Men must heed:

"The men, who have not been named, were licensed to have 71 weapons. ... An audit of the men's weapons was carried out sometime in the past two months, in accordance with Australian firearms law, but police would not say if that led to the raid."

Registration leads to confiscation.

[redreno]

What is the point of having such a large stockpile of weapons, if you allow yourself to be arrested without a shot being fired?

[Carriage Hill]

They were neutered after the ‘96 Port Arthur Massacre: “More than 600,000 newly prohibited weapons, around a fifth of all firearms in Australia, were destroyed at a cost of nearly half-a-billion dollars.” Same ‘buy-back’ program happened in 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_buyback_program#Australia

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

What happened to those crazy Aussies that fought with us in South VN?

Hell, what happened when the continent was first discovered?

Australia was settled by prisoners.

[Carriage Hill]

It’s what gov’ts do well: bullshit.

[gundog]

...depending on caliber and case size.

And .22 LR would be the densest.

[Carriage Hill]

LEOs will wind-up keeping all that, probably. But the nice hardware’s gone.

[Carriage Hill]

They’re hardly showing all 328 weapons, but I’d like to get a close look at them.

[Carriage Hill]

Also sounds like they’d done some “modifications” (sears, barrels etc) to them, which rendered many of the illegal.