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Arms Bill

General requirements - Requirements for selling or supplying arms items and ammunition - Selling or supplying firearms, blank-firing guns, and airguns

40: Requirements for selling or supplying standard firearm, blank-firing gun, or airgun

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"Rules for selling guns and airguns to people"

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If you want to sell or supply a standard firearm to someone, they must have a firearms licence. You can only sell or supply a blank-firing gun to someone if they have a firearms licence. If you want to sell or supply an airgun to someone, they must either be 18 years or older, or be between 16 and 18 years old and have a firearms licence.

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Part 2General requirements
Requirements for selling or supplying arms items and ammunition: Selling or supplying firearms, blank-firing guns, and airguns

40Requirements for selling or supplying standard firearm, blank-firing gun, or airgun

  1. A person may only sell or supply a standard firearm to another person (B) if B holds a firearms licence.

  2. A person may only sell or supply a blank-firing gun to another person (B) if B holds a firearms licence.

  3. A person may only sell or supply an airgun to another person (B) if B—

  4. is aged between 16 years and 18 years and holds a firearms licence; or
    1. is of or over the age of 18 years.

      1. Subsections (1) to (3) are subject to any other provision of this Act that provides otherwise.

      2. A person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years, or to a fine not exceeding $40,000, if the person, without reasonable excuse, contravenes subsection (1) or (2).

      3. A person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to a fine not exceeding $20,000, if the person, without reasonable excuse, contravenes subsection (3).