Is this true?

Australia is confiscating some bolt action rifles because they look scary?



Gun owners often argue that “assault weapon” is just a term made up by politicians to ban guns that look “scary.”

The designation is made up, they say, to confuse consumers into thinking that machine guns are available off the shelf at local sporting goods stores. The so-called assault weapon, they say, is simply a semi-automatic rifle with certain cosmetic features.

Australia's government is giving ammunition to this argument by beginning to confiscate rifles simply because they look scary. The Australian Border Force ordered its citizens to turn in a bolt action rifle, 7 News Brisbane reports, “due to the firearm being substantially the same in appearance as a fully automatic firearm.” In other words, the guns are now illegal because they look like so called assault weapons.

The rifle in question is a Riverman Operator Assisted Firearm. It cannot fire fully automatic. It cannot even fire semi-automatic. It is a bolt action rifle, meaning that a shooter has to manually chamber a cartridge before taking each shot. Aside from its pistol grip, tactical stock, and scope, it has more in common with Lee Enfield rifles of the Second World War than M16s or AK-47s of today’s conflicts.

But because looks can be deceiving, the gun has become illegal.

https://www.washingtonexaminer...its-scary-appearance

I had heard that Tasmania was considering banning rifles with pistol-type grips, but not that it might go federal.

While I realise that some of those tactical rifles have serious merit as target rifles, I am not blind to the government's logic in this.

Why? Because Rambo/computer-game fantasies in the mind of the maniac may indeed have been a part of the mass shooting murders we used to have.

After the 1987 Hoddle Street massacre the Victorian Government banned self-loading rifles with distinct pistol grips but left our beloved Woodies and BARs alone. Had John Howard done the same after the Port Arthur massacre, I might not despise him quite so much.

Hollywood cant sell an Arnie Action Man with a bolt rifle,they MUST be tac styled for the lemmings.

Hard to believe Australia has succumbed to being just another wimpy nation.

Grizz

At least you can still say Cunt in Australia, that word will get you thrown in jail in Canada.

I dropped a C bomb the other day in the Fatherland in a public place and you would have thought that I had shit on a lefty pinko mental orgy between Clinton and that ranga Gilliard.

Ha ha ha it is one of the most used words in daily Oz imo. I never knew that it is taboo in Germany to use it in a public place.

If I dont ask my mates the usual greeting "how/what are you cunts going today"
They will think I am sick lol