Got License For That Toy Gun?

By Alex in Crime & Law, Politics, Weapons & War on Sep 8, 2010 at 8:52 pm

Got a license for that toy gun? That’s right – if this new law is passed, all items that look like a gun will have to be licensed:

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."

Link (Photo: Mark Cranitch)


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  1. AnonmymousNAME
    Sep 8th, 2010 at 9:58 pm

    So they want to know where people are keeping the plastic guns, eh?

    What a pile of horse sh*t.

  2. reithe
    Sep 8th, 2010 at 11:43 pm

    O.o They’re wasting tax money on that?

  3. James E. Wat
    Sep 9th, 2010 at 12:03 am

    Sounds like the end of airsoft games…

  4. Mouserz
    Sep 9th, 2010 at 12:21 am

    well that’s fucking retarded.

  5. Augie
    Sep 9th, 2010 at 3:24 am

    They can have my bar-of-soap-crudely-carved-into-the-shape-of-a-Walther-PPK when they pry it from my cold, dead, slippery fingers.

  6. OhYes
    Sep 9th, 2010 at 5:43 am

    So dollar stores are gonna hand out gun licenses now?

  7. C.A.
    Sep 9th, 2010 at 6:38 am

    Lol @ Augie! Very nice!

  8. nutbastard
    Sep 9th, 2010 at 9:06 am

    “We just want to know where they are.”

    …why?

  9. Chojiro
    Sep 9th, 2010 at 9:25 am

    Perfect societal bliss is just one more regulation away.

  10. Red Bunny
    Sep 9th, 2010 at 10:56 am

    That sounds a bit unreasonable.

  11. Christophe
    Sep 9th, 2010 at 12:38 pm

    bye bye nerf?

  12. wow
    Sep 9th, 2010 at 10:29 pm

    “We just want to know where they are.”

    they should be trying to find their common sense instead……

  13. Max Power
    Sep 10th, 2010 at 1:18 am

    I have a supersoaker..

  14. Hans
    Sep 10th, 2010 at 9:30 am

    Using this rationale; the state of Florida (which is distinctly gun-shaped) will have trouble. No keychain fob sales, etc. of this threatening shape!

  15. Jennifer -
    Sep 10th, 2010 at 1:21 pm

    @James E. Wat

    Airsoft guns are already illegal in Australia anyway.


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