On 21/6/23 09:50, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 at 22:11, Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote:
an air rifle is not a firearm, in English, because there is no
combustion
Unfortunately, in Australia at least, air rifles are actually
officially classed as firearms! :-(
NSW legal definition of firearm;
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".
UK Firearms Act 1968 the expression “firearm” means—
(a)a lethal barrelled weapon (see subsection (1B));
(b)a prohibited weapon;
(c)a relevant component part in relation to a lethal barrelled weapon or
a prohibited weapon (see subsection (1D));
(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;]
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.
[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.
(1C)Subsection (1) is subject to section 57A (exception for airsoft guns).]
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I note the absence of 'fire' in the above definitions. Explosions can be
had from compressed gas.
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