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Using forged or fraudulently altered licence or permit to obtain firearm
Offence title:
Using forged or fraudulently altered licence or permit to obtain firearm
Act:
71A Firearms Act (NSW)
Offence:
If the person uses a document that is, and that the person knows to be, false, with the intention of obtaining a firearm they commit an offence.
Penalty:
Imprisonment for 10 years
Summary/Indictable/mixed:
Mixed
Jurisdiction:
Local, District or Supreme Court
How committed:
Person A has his grandson create a false licence with software on his computer. Person A then produces it to another to induce them to sell him a firearm
Important note:
A document is false if it purports to be a licence or permit authorising the person who is using it to possess a firearm but is in fact:
(a) not a licence or permit, or
(b) a licence or permit that has been altered in any respect by a person who was not authorised to make the alteration, or
(c) a licence or permit that has been issued to another person.