Gotta love the way the media and Police sensationalise a firearm seizure...
http://www.police.act.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/act/2014/June/rifle-seized-during-traffic-stop.aspx said:
Rifle seized during traffic stop
Release Date: Wednesday, June 11 2014, 12:07 PM
A rifle with a sniper scope was seized from a vehicle during a traffic stop in Gowrie late last night (June 10).
ACT Policing officers had been on patrol in Gowrie around 11.30pm and had seized the rifle after executing a routine traffic stop on a blue Holden Commodore. The driver of the vehicle was not licensed for the firearm.
The driver of the vehicle will be summonsed to court at a later date on a firearms charge and investigations are ongoing.
First of all, wtf is a "sniper scope"? Is it one with a certain magnification? Where do you draw the line? Is my 4-20 Minox a sniper scope?
Second, it doesn't say he was in possession of an illegal or unregistered firearm, simply that he wasn't licensed for THAT rifle. It also didn't say that he wasn't licensed to have
a firearm.
No wonder there's such a bad "criminal" stigma attached to guns when the public are fed horse **** like this. I guess, the best way to control the masses is to make them fearful.
