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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/6/23 09:50, Graeme Fitzpatrick
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 at
22:11, Greg Troxel <<a href="mailto:gdt@lexort.com"
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an air rifle is not a firearm, in English, because there
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combustion<br>
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<div>Unfortunately, in Australia at least, air rifles are
actually officially classed as firearms! :-(</div>
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<p>NSW legal definition of firearm;</p>
<p>Firearms Act 1996 section 4 "as a gun, or other weapon, that is
(or at any time was) capable of propelling a projectile by means
of an explosive, and includes a blank fire firearm, or an air gun,
but does not include a paintball marker within the meaning of the
Paintball Act 2018 or anything declared by the regulations not to
be a firearm".</p>
<p>UK Firearms Act 1968 the expression “firearm” means—<br>
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(a)a lethal barrelled weapon (see subsection (1B));<br>
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(b)a prohibited weapon;<br>
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(c)a relevant component part in relation to a lethal barrelled
weapon or a prohibited weapon (see subsection (1D));<br>
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(d)an accessory to a lethal barrelled weapon or a prohibited
weapon where the accessory is designed or adapted to diminish the
noise or flash caused by firing the weapon;]<br>
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and so much of section 1 of this Act as excludes any description
of firearm from the category of firearms to which that section
applies shall be construed as also excluding component parts of,
and accessories to, firearms of that description.<br>
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[F3(1B)In subsection (1)(a), “lethal barrelled weapon” means a
barrelled weapon of any description from which a shot, bullet or
other missile, with kinetic energy of more than one joule at the
muzzle of the weapon, can be discharged.<br>
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(1C)Subsection (1) is subject to section 57A (exception for
airsoft guns).]</p>
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<p>I note the absence of 'fire' in the above definitions. Explosions
can be had from compressed gas. <br>
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