Thread: Mail order firearm loophole??????????

Of course if its someone you know personally and you have seen their firearms licence then you can argue that its not a 'mail order' sale either, so the form is not required.

43 Selling or supplying firearm or airgun to unlicensed person
(1) Every person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 3 months or to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to both
who—
(a) sells or supplies a firearm (other than a pistol, military style semi-automatic
firearm, or restricted weapon) to any person who is not the holder
of a firearms licence or a dealer’s licence or a permit issued for the purposes
of section 16(1); or
(b) sells or supplies an airgun to any natural person who is under the age of
18 years and is not the holder of a firearms licence.
(2) In any prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) in which it is
proved,—
(a) in the case of a prosecution for an offence against paragraph (a) of that
subsection, that the defendant sold or supplied a firearm to any person,
the burden of proving that that person was the holder of a firearms
licence shall lie on the defendant;

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(4) A defendant may, in the case of a prosecution relating to the sale or supply of a
firearm or airgun to any person, discharge the burden of proof placed on him
by subsection (2) by proving that he took reasonable steps to ascertain whether
that person was the holder of a firearms licence or was of or over the age of 18
years, as the case may require.