Thread: Gunsmith - triggering event or not?

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

I would have disputed that a mail order form for a suppressor is an activating event!

With the FSA it seems the people who work there have on one hand very loose interpretations right up to wrong ones, and then quite strict, depending on who you get on the phone. It is more than what a lay person in the community could understand from their own publications, which is what they all are....they all seem to be call centre people who were given a powerpoint presentation on their first day and then told to answer the phones.

(Look even the police whose job it is to enforce and disseminate the new order dont understand the basics. My security inspector insisted that you need to have your ammo in a locked box when traveling in your car. I pointed out that Arms Act literally says, a locked compartment of the vehicle - if practicable. She was unable to understand this.)

That's exactly what I found myself in with what I was doing - carting the ammo in a ute with a lockable canopy/tray. Firearms in the cab, so I thought I was complying with everything in separately locked compartments of the vehicle. Turned up where I was going and everyone commented that I didn't have the ammo in a locked box. I was like huh? Where does it say I need a locked box?

Quick googling, followed by more discussion and then an argument or three and we all agreed to expand our horizons on what size 'locked box' the ammo was in. Buggered if I know - it's almost like you need a copy of the Arms Act in your back pocket now, quite shit really.