Australian Museums’ Guns face Destruction

By Dean Weingarten

Australia -(Ammoland.com)- The most famous firearms manufacturer in Australia is the Lithgow Small Arms Factory. On the grounds of the existing factory site is the Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum. The Museum is independently owned and operated, primarily by volunteers, as an independent trust on behalf of the City of Lithgow. Just a few weeks ago, the museum learned that 70 percent of its collection is at risk of being destroyed because of a thoughtless change in firearms law passed in 2017, specifically aimed at museums. Museums were not contacted about the change in the law. They had no input about it. From lithgowsafmuseum.org.au:

LSAFM only found out about the new Regulation when another regional volunteer-led museum had firearms confiscated in early February 2019, and contacted us for advice.

Basically the 2017 Regulation for Museums states that all pistols, self-loading long arms, sub-machine guns or machine guns are to be rendered permanently inoperable.

The irreversible destruction includes:

• inserting a steel rod traversing the length of the barrel and welding it at the muzzle and chamber;
• welding the barrel to the receiver;
• removing the …Read the Rest

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