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Offences

Firearms dealers must be licensed

Offence title:

Firearms dealers must be licensed

Act:

43 Firearms Act (NSW)

Offence:

A person must not:

(a)   carry on activities as a firearms dealer, or

(b)   possess a firearm in the person’s capacity as a firearms dealer,

unless authorised to do so by a firearms dealer licence.

Penalty:

Imprisonment for 7 years

Summary/Indictable/mixed:

Mixed

Jurisdiction:

Local, District or Supreme Court

How committed:

Person A buys a firearm off Person B in the pub because he knows Person C wants to go pig shooting. In buying and selling the firearm Person A has acted as a firearms dealer.

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