Posted on 08/26/2018 4:45:49 AM PDT by marktwain
| Replica Guns found at Steven Sicen Sun Home in New South Wales, Australia Photo by Police |
The first person in New South Wales to be charged over making and possessing 3D-printed guns has avoided jail.The case occurred in the Australian state of New South Wales, which includes Sidney. New South Wales is the only Australian state that has made it illegal to possess the computer files that can be used to print 3D guns.
Steven Sicen Sun was charged early last year and pleaded guilty to multiple offences after police found replica guns and blueprints to make them on a 3D printer in his Waverley apartment.
The 28-year-old also tried to sell one of the 3D-printed guns online for $1 million.
Replica or imitation firearms:Steven Sicen Sun plead guilty to the charges. He was found guilty and sentenced to 50 months in jail. The sentence was immediately suspended. He will now serve 12 months on a good behavior bond.
an imitation of any firearm which requires a licence or permit under the Firearms Act, unless approved by the Commissioner of Police.
Governments are criminal
Hopefully no one is injured by the photos of said “weapons”. I’m sure the bad guys will be in full compliance.
The absurdity continues making it’s way in to some of the entertainment platforms. The latest in “Shooter” and “Queen Of The South” on USA network. Ridiculous is polite. On Shooter, an assassin shoots a woman from across a courtyard with a supposed plastic 3-D gun. Then on QOTS the main drug running female is given a plastic gun that is undetectable with a metal detector. Made me wanna puke. These assclowns will continue to perpetrate these falsehoods and an ignorant public will believe the lie.
Never let a crisis go to waste...
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Australian gun laws were rushed through to take advantage of the media push for extreme restrictions after the Port Arthur mass murder in Tasmania, Australia. The legislation was prepared in advance by radical disarmament proponents. It includes multiple bizarre sections that are slowly being reformed.
In that case, I am a hardened criminal. I've carried a pocket knife since I was 11 years old. And yes, I took it to school.
A week ago, I had to travel on business. When I was going through airport security, the TSA agent stopped and xrayed my purse a second time. At that moment, I remembered that I had put my pocket knife in there and totally forgotten it until that moment. So when another agent took my purse to search, I told him that I thought the problem was my pocketknife. After he found it, he said that my options were to take everything back to my car, since I was traveling alone and had no one to watch my stuff, or to mail it. So, for $15, I mailed my knife.
I am so glad that we don't live under those stupid and restrictive laws. I can guarantee that my knife, like the rifle in my bedroom, has never attacked anyone.
“New South Wales is the only Australian state that has made it illegal to possess the computer files that can be used to print 3D guns.”
NSW...the California of Australia.
John Howard....the Charles Schumer of Australia.
“Hopefully no one is injured by the photos of said “weapons”.”
Possession of the photos is probably a felony in NSW. Dirty shame...Aussies are great people.
So he basically got arrested for making toy guns.
Yes.
It is easy to see the philisophical reasons for the law.
It serves two purposes for those who demand a disarmed populaition.
First, it reinforces the concept that guns are bad and must be tightly controlled by the state. Even facimilies are bad because they promote the idea of guns.
Second, it removes any restraint on searches for "guns" by the police. If anything like a gun is seen, it is reason for a search, because possession of even a facsimile of a gun is illegal without a special license.
All of this is designed to delegitimize the idea of ownership of guns.
should be facsimiles
“In Australia, slingshots and crossbows are prohibited weapons. Air rifles are treated the same as 12 gauge shotguns. Failing to lock up one .22 rimfire cartridge requires confiscation of all firearms and loss of the ability to posses firearms for life. Pocket knives may not be carried without a reason acceptable to the police.”
Democrats want to do the same thing here.
I guess my post WW2 cast aluminum M1911 and Luger would be illegal to these handjobs.
I use my REAL firearms to protect my fake ones from prying @$$wilpes.
Give me front row seating and a boxcar of popcorn when technology leaps ahead when you get even the crudest form of a Star Trek type of a replicator.
Or battery tech jumps a light year and a hand held laser gun can be built anywhere. The type that’s not only silent, its untraceable, uses no case like ammo, no mags, looks like a cellphone....
Australia will be communist within ten years. They can’t fight back now, so the government has all the power to do as they will.
What is next, banning photographs of guns?
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