Interesting. So it's like the Australia model more or less. Sad its come to this, but its nice for people to get a chance to play around with handguns. To be fair, with them being registered and all, its not like you ever fully owned them anyway.
What do you mean Australian model? I own and keep at home my CZ SP-01 in Australia our licensing of handguns was very similar to Canada before you guys changed it.
I thought yours was way more onerous. Like you have to attend a certain amount of shoots and pretty much qualify to keep it on a yearly basis. Whereas up here before you didnt need to be in competitions or ever even shoot the gun. Some provinces required a range membership and others didnt.
So the way we could get one was the same in terms of licensing but yes you have to do a certain amount of comps per year to keep it and that changed based on state in my state its 6 comps and 4 practices a year (comp and prac are the same its just what you mark it down as) but in Qld its 6 comps and what they do is called a rolling comp where you shoot 6 bowling pins with an RO as fast as you can and that gets scored with everyone else that same week. While it sounds like a fuck around you would pretty much go and shoot 10 times a year anyway so its not a massive deal for me but it still deters people which I guess the point. You can also get exemptions to the comp requirements but that's a year by year exemption which was the case all throughout covid due to the fucked lock downs we had here.
Depends on the state because gun laws aren’t federal just state based unless it’s imports. QLD doing that isn’t regulated VIC you need a permit but can definitely be done. Pretty common with pc chargers now.
Just the one but I've heard of some here and there. That was in my state under a Cat H Cat 2 which is for collectors, dealers, movie armorers and museums. In Qld you could own it under a club shooting Cat H but you have to be ready to challenge QPOL in court because they will denied it as soon as they realise what they have licensed it. They did it with AR15 pistols that were made in AU and a certain someone got licensed for a M1 Garand on a Cat B which is a manual action license (it was semi-auto). A guy won a court appeal to keep his handguns in Qld which included (all semi-auto) Uzi, Mac-10, CZ- scorpion, a Tec-9 and a .22LR AK so thanks to him club shooters can own them but QPOL reclassify shit they don't like as soon as they know about it. The Ruger PC Charger and Charger in .22LR are on the line but are fine for now. In Vic we don't have a lot stopping collectors from owning cool shit which is what Cat H Cat 2 is, including that the AUG was you mentioned. A lot of handgun's that aren't classed as club legal, such as an AR-15 handgun, a Sig 550 handgun and a bunch of Uzi's, MAC10's and CZ-Scorpions with a couple others I don't know about but I have heard of MP5 that were once rifles but now pistols in some collections. Our import laws stop us now from importing shit that looks cool but would otherwise be a legal handgun so what's here is here.
Neat. Ive always curiously obeserved aussie gun culture. Your situation sucks(ours isnt much better now), but its neat to see how people get along under such restrictions. God speed
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u/WeightedDips95 May 15 '26
Interesting. So it's like the Australia model more or less. Sad its come to this, but its nice for people to get a chance to play around with handguns. To be fair, with them being registered and all, its not like you ever fully owned them anyway.