I’m not even going to mention the amount of homemade bang sticks and other things that we used to craft together in the shed on the farm when we were kids………, as in this day and age, I would have the TRG kicking my door in tomorrow morning 
Never thought I’d live to see the day when our Government would seriously ban plastic kids toys and threaten imprisonment for being in possession of one 
this ban is dumb simply due to the fact that criminals, by nature, will just ignore them.
Just spotted this article. Not really drawing attention to the blasters themselves but also didn’t need to title it “guns and drugs” when they should be replicas, but I guess that doesn’t meet their agenda.
Why does it look like they had to go digging for those rifles? theres what looks to be rusted bolts on those m4’s in a fair few spots more so on that battle arms one in the middle.
They’re definitely old ones so god knows where they dug them out from.
Yea I get what your saying but as we don’t have appearance laws. SAPOL was having trouble with these sorts. Now it’s firearm laws that were allready in place so those idiots are fucked 
I hate the bullshit media fear tactics of calling these “FIREARMS”
Sure it looks good for the police and media to sensationalise that term to strike fear into the uneducated general public… but it’s fkn embarrassing where one state is looking to prosecute for “firearms” that are considered totally legal harmless kids toys in another state
I’m yet to see a judge in Australia to actually pass down sentences on Gelblasters alone… only when involved in criminal activities such as this case.
That is the reason why. A judge can not pass because gov has not a law for them.
If they are reclassified to a firearm then they actually can. Which they gotta do something. I spent hours watching the fors and against.
SA had to go this way of the firearm to get a compromise . I tell you it has worked as then the judges were finally able to prosecute the fuckwits on fire arm laws which are hefty. They had something to work with instead of nothing. They fkn got em too
Still today I get asked oh appearence laws, we never had and still do not have fkn appearance laws. You should see my real steel it is verbotten in NSW, Vic, Queensland and Western Australia. No mag restriction like Queensland does. People don’t even take the time to read or follow what legislation their own state has and sprout misinformation.
There is no way I can move to any other state with what I have. Have to get rid of them all. Fuck that.
I simply can not. I can but I have to give up my toys. WA= no way. I got primary producer licence that WA does not recognize. Along with every other fucked state.
My mate had the exact same problem when he moved here from SA, had to sell all his good toys because he couldn’t bring them to WA🙄
That’s the same mate that just sold his lever 30-30, Italian over/under shottie and his childhood .22 because of the strict new laws coming in next year.
He recently moved towns from out the Wheatbelt to closer to the coast and his new house is only on 5 acres, which isn’t a large enough property for those calibre guns.
He’s only left with a couple of .22 & .177 air rifles and his replica Thompson 
I’m gonna play devil’s advocate and say that since the 18+ age restriction on the sale of gel blasters up here in Bananaland we’ve lost the ability to call them kid’s toys… even though they are.
We gotta call them adult toys now 
Hubba hubba… 
They must be adult toys…
They can cause woodies, and split the Wesker…
Not to forget , squiddies discharges…!!
I mean… tickle the little bit on it and they are squirting gel everywhere!
Jeez… and I thought we were all mature Adults around here… but the banter continually proves otherwise
Surprised if you don’t own a dildo baseball bat already.
It’s a video game reference BTW haha.
Time to revive this thread again because once again its in the news
Normal stuff: media bashes, few calls for bans, mentioning of the rules, pointing out what others have done, only new thing is the police union standing up and saying they dont support a rules change, wonder how many cops are out using them for training to get that response.
And, in breaking news…
in the 12 months since Feb 2024, there have been 1272 road fatalities.
1272…vs 1 ( per year)…
Quick , ban the car…!!
Dangerous, deadly weapon of mass destruction.
Oh wait…the govt gets 100’s of millions from rego, insurance, GST, luxury car tax, stamp duty, speeding fines… its all good now…
Try banning cigarettes, and see what happens…how many deaths from lung cancer per year…??
Good to see the police support the status quo…banning isn’t going to change anything now…there would be a million+ gel blasters in circulation now…
1 death / year from over a million items in circulation…
That beats the stats for road toll / drug use / teen crime etc…
Can’t see the problem in reducing the congestion in the shallow end of the gene pool
