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Soldier fined over replica guns
Wednesday, 3 November 2004
A 22-year-old soldier from Darwin's Robertson Barracks has been fined $600 for firearms offences involving replica pistols that were found in his house in October last year.
Geoffrey James Brotherton was cooperating with a police search for drugs at the Barracks when the firearms were found.
The Darwin Magistrates Court heard Brotherton was not licensed to handle the replica pistols.
His lawyer told the court the firearms had small plastic pellets and his client had used them to shoot at figurines when he was a teenager.
Magistrate Daynor Trigg heard the soldier had served in Iraq and East Timor and was an exemplary soldier.
He was fined $600 and no conviction was recorded."

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So they need a permit to have an airsoft? If it looks like a gun, is plastic, shoots plastic pellets instead of bullets, weights half to a third what a real gun weighs, and doesn't go bang like a gun, then in Australia, it must be a gun.
Go figure.
-Robert