Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

FIREARMS ACT 1996 - SECT 185

A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     in carrying on a business, the person—

              (i)     manufactures, acquires, disposes of, repairs, maintains or tests firearms or firearm parts; or

              (ii)     possesses firearms for the purpose of disposing of, or repairing, maintaining or testing, them; or

              (iii)     possesses firearm parts for the purpose of manufacturing firearms; or

              (iv)     stores firearms for someone else; and

        (b)     the person is not authorised to do the thing by a firearms dealer licence.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units, imprisonment for 1 year or both.