Toy guns will have to be licensed in Queensland under new firearms laws

[The Straight Story]

Toy guns will have to be licensed in Queensland under new firearms laws
ANY ITEM that looks like a gun will have to be licensed under several changes to the Weapons Act being considered by the Queensland State Government.

Even guns made out of materials as unlikely as soap or plastic may have to be kept under lock and key if they could "reasonably be taken to be a weapon".

The draft act says an imitation is a "reasonable copy" of a weapon that is not capable of causing death or injury.

"If it looks like a gun and feels like a gun, it will have to be licensed," said a government source.

"We just want to know where they are."

It is unclear how the draft affects toy guns.


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Puritans - against smoking, drinking, fun, guns, fast food, etc. - they aren't fundies with a bible though.....which makes it all more worrisome.

[aikoaiko]

1. next: extending index finger out and thumb up with other fingers tucked in is a terroristic act

:shrug:

[Fla_Democrat]

5. I can see it now

all 5 year olds and up will have to have their thumb and forefinger print on file... just in case. :smoke:

[TheWraith]

20. That's already been done in the US.

A boy who did that and pointed it at a teacher resulted in the school calling the police.

Yes, I'm serious.

[guardian]

23. Quick....

let's start a movement to amputate all index fingers so the antis won't have to "feel afraid"

[duckduckduck]

2. My F - ing God how ridiculous.

This is insane and enough to make one question his politics..

[madinmaryland]

3. Here we go again...

:popcorn:

[cleanhippie]

4. IBMTG...

In Before its Moved To the Gungeon......




More nanny state bullshit.

Hard to believe that many want this kind of nonsense right here at home.

[Odin2005]

11. Just remember "gun control" was started by RW bigots scared of the Blank Panthers.

[shadowrider]

13. Uh, you might want to do some research on the racist roots of gun control (Hint: It wasn't the RW)

[Glassunion]

15. There is that... But what the eff is a "blank" panther?

[shadowrider]

17. Someone who's had a vasectomy?

:shrug:

[Glassunion]

19. +1... HA!

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Personally, I blame the laws that say I can't smoke inside the IHOP.

There. I finished the thread for you! :hi:

[geckosfeet]

7. No sense. Nonsense. 'It is unlcear how the draft affects toy guns.'

Help help the sky is falling and I am afraid.

Edited to not add a sarcasm smiley.
:boring:

[X_Digger]

8. And laser pointers??

The proposed changes will also impose restrictions on the ownership of laser pointers,...<snip> In certain circumstances, religion will be a lawful excuse for carrying a knife and police who take their service-issue firearms home will be exempted.

What, they're afraid someone will tape a laser pointer to a shark? 'sharks with frickin laser beams..'

I assume the religious exception would be for Sikhs.

[RandomThoughts]

9. That is interesting.

I would not hurt or kill people, I think that is wrong, so don't need to have a gun.


But I find it interesting when people ask where someone is.

If you saw street view of where I live, you would understand a few clips including.

Celtic Woman - Over the rainbow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5T6gyCPDvM

"Above the chimney tops."

[Odin2005]

10. That is fucking stupid.

Will kids have to license sticks that look like guns?

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

12. Crazy...

What if someone got creative and gutted a drill and turned it into a gun? Could it still be kept in the tool box?

:shrug:

[Pavulon]

14. I still think they will build the great firewall like china...

any person that could accept law would accept anything.

[proteus_lives]

16. What stupidity.

Big Brother marches in the merry old land of Oz.

[Katya Mullethov]

18. You must pay to register normally

Its what they do , and why they think we are here . We pay to watch them masturbate and fail . Anyone who has dealt with a state comptroller or the IRS long enough as a business will understand this basic concept . I doubt they give two shakes about toy gun crime , they need money !

[Hoopla Phil]

21. I wonder how these examples would be classified.

[oneshooter]

22. Assault weapon, Assault weapon, Assault weapon, Assault weapon

Concealable Assault weapon, Laser Assault weapon, Illegal Assault weapon, single shot Assault weapon and Concealable Illegal Laser Assault weapon.

I believe that the last one is a stick?


Oneshooter
Armed and Livin in Texas