Thread: Firearm Safety by Default

Looking at rural property via a well known website. Fotos of inside of house... lounge. Up on wall proudly under the usual red deer head was a 303 with bolt in hung up on the wall.Funny how neither the website known for its idiotic rules nor the real estate agency picked it up. The fotos also proudly recorded the address of the property. You can bet your last dollar if it was a FAL holder their licence would be revoked for lack of gun safety.

Or maybe the bolt has been welded in place and the bore completely plugged and its no longer a firearm it just looks like one ?
Just like the canons displayed at war memorials and RSA clubs etc....

Originally Posted by dannyb

Or maybe the bolt has been welded in place and the bore completely plugged and its no longer a firearm it just looks like one ?
Just like the canons displayed at war memorials and RSA clubs etc....

According to current legislation that isn't enough.
By replacing components it would be returned to a useable condition, so the owner needs a license, and the ornament needs to be locked up.

And the ironic thing is I've got a 4x2 sitting out on my deck unsecured, Add enough components and it'll be a working firearm.

Did the 303 look like this

https://www.deltamike.co.nz/product/...-smle-replica/

All you need is a barrel, a trigger assembly and an action and you can turn any peice of lumber from a bus stop seat into a firearm.

Originally Posted by Ross Nolan

According to current legislation that isn't enough.
By replacing components it would be returned to a useable condition, so the owner needs a license, and the ornament needs to be locked up.

If you replace the barrel and action then by todays law it is not the same firearm....Its a bit like my ax is on its third head and fourth handle....I have seen wall hangers that look untouched and yet the 'barrel' is a solid piece of steel rod turned down to a barrel profile....sure a competent gunsmith could potentially turn a piece of steel rod into a barrel...but if that does not comply then the law needs fixing not the ornament (cant call it a firearm if it isnt one...)

That was one of my submissions on the Arms act. Someone looking to make a point could start with a rifle completely welded closed and say well, if you started with the foresight and just replaced some components you'd have a working firearm.
Unlikely, sure.
Impossible, no.

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

All you need is a barrel, a trigger assembly and an action and you can turn any peice of lumber from a bus stop seat into a firearm.

need to ban bus stop seats !!!