Guys,
Check this out. Victoria's Regulatory Impact Statement to rejig the Firearms Regulations is proposing:
1. A decrease in shooters licence fee of between 11-23%
2. A 97% increase in handgun license fees.
3. 138% increase in junior licenses.
4. 647% increase in dealer licenses (A/B and general handguns)
5. A 239% increase in Permits to Purchase.

http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/DOJ+Inter...nt%20-%20Summary.pdf

Okay ... which joker snuck Robert Mugabe into Victoria???

Not sure whether to laugh or cry...
Cheers...
Con

Say goodbye to the small/mixed shop gundealers and no dealers and gunsmiths who operate from home or no shopfront. The statement says 303 Gundealers in Victoria I think it will easily halve that number! So what happens to a dealer who cannot afford this increase does he have to sell his stock at a loss? or is there another buyback coming up? bit by bit the government is closing down the shooting sports ...Bastards!

You Aussies might want to take a lesson from American history.

We started a Revolution over a little tax on tea.

The closing date for submissions is I believe the 11th of March.

It kind of makes me laugh to consider as a taxpayer I paid the wages for the joker that came up with those figures.

Those numbers will end most small time one person dealerships.
Cheers...
Con

And by making it a saving for about 80% of the end-users (A+B users), they will actually make this bit of encroachment popular!

Bastards...

The way I see it they want licence fees to pay for the running of the firearms registry, so what are tax's for? A licence is to show you are competant in things like driving, shooting, second hand dealing, etc it is not supposed to be for revenue but in Victoria they see it as revenue and a way of slowly pushing people out of the firearms industry..Bastards!!

sjm,
Perhaps they could look at efficiencies within the Licensing Services Division?

Maybe I'll put in my submission ... cease registration . That might make someone spit out their coffee
Cheers...
Con

They could answer the phone! thats one efficiency they could work on!!!!!

Probably busy un-jamming the photocopiers
Cheers...
Con

Between your speed camera division and now the firearm liscencing division,looks like their really going to shove the cold end of a red hot poker up yer asses,(so you cant grab the hot end and pull it out )

We always use a soldering iron for the same.

I guess that means there will be no more Marma Lake Firearms in 20 months time.

Will be interesting if it goes through the Parliament and is accepted

quote:

Originally posted by N E 450 No2:
You Aussies might want to take a lesson from American history.

We started a Revolution over a little tax on tea.

Hmmm. How many dead? Perhaps not...
We normally try to sort out our differences at the ballot box. Less bloodshed that way.