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Posted on 11/28/2013 3:34:19 PM PST by 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.”
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Especially if it’s the fully automatic high capacity model.
This situation sounds so familiar. Are there any places named Lexington or Concord in Australia?
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I’m surprised that either the 1996 or 2003 registration/confiscation programs didn’t cause riots in Australia. Their Queensland would have taken its rightful place up with our Lexington and Concord.
Oh yes I agree with you Bob - seems to me the Queensland laws are unconstitutional as they were proven to be here in South Australia. There are plenty enough laws to deal with the lawbreakers but that would take enough Police to actually deal with the problem - it’s easier for them to try to create new laws that later on could be used against any group they suspected of subversive or illegal activities - a church even depending on what other laws are changed!
A government shouldn’t be allowed to break the law in pursuing lawbreakers!
Mel
Excuse me while I wipe the drool from my chin. :-)
So that’s where all of the ammo went.
Sounds like the makin’s of a great weekend. Who was suppose to bring the beer?
Last dbl-door Cannon gunsafe made, back in 2004, and it’s amazing inside; heh.
That’s a mere drop-in-the-ocean to what DHS has secreted away, over the past few years.
So much for the "rugged Outback" image the Aussies like to portray, especially in Queensland. What a bunch of whimps!
LOL!!! Mick Dundee wouldn't be skeerd...
A clear case of Hoplophobia
The firearms pictured in post 32 look like the average ones you see at any table at a US gun show. Mostly older shotguns and bolt action hunting rifles. Even the ones with aftermarket military style stocks look to be simple bolt actions. Australia has turned into a bunch of sissies to be afraid of such firearms. Gun bans, don’t let it happen in our USA.
a REAL hand cannon...
You’re right, look like RWS’...
Notice the 105mm Howitzer casing and the 40mm Bofors on top of the safe? A friend, USAF Capt, flew an AC-130 Spectre Gunship in Afghanistan for 2 yrs, and brought back a bunch of ‘souvenirs’.
He said when they fired the 105mm, the plane moved 12-15ft sideways in recoil.
“So much for the “rugged Outback” image the Aussies like to portray, especially in Queensland. What a bunch of whimps! “
I spend time online talking with Aussie shooters and the various state gun laws in Oz are seemingly crazy to us Americans. Their media and government succeeded in turning the Aussie general public into outright gun haters after the Port Arthur affair in 1996. To the average Aussie “gun” equates to “outlaw.” And God help if you use a firearm in defense of yourself or property.
The fact in this case that only 71 firearms were registered but they had over three-hundred physically on-hand is a huge no-no in Oz where state police perform random inspections of home storage to confirm matching serials on registered firearms. Here, to my knowledge, these guys eff-up was in allowing the unregistered arms to be discovered. Why didn’t they hide them better? Keep the registered ones in licensed storage and secret the rest somewhere the police would have no idea or reason to look. As I understand it Oz police have the ability to inspect your storage and the general area it is in (house, garage, shed, etc.) but not the entire property especially without some sort of proper cause.
Are they high capacity pellet guns?
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