Aussie attacking my 2 favorite things

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Apparently in Austraila, If you walk through the food court with a replica Star Wars blaster on the way to a photo shoot; and a casual diner happens to see it and gets scared....well your charged with possesion of a unregistered fire-arm.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070525/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_australia_starwars;_ylt=AhzSNYhdXuh_OeJoR3QycxOdk3QF


Force against Star Wars fan Fri May 25, 11:01 AM ET



CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian movie fan on his way to pose for a Star Wars 30th anniversary photo shoot was arrested by police after his replica laser pistol was mistaken for a more earthly machine gun, media reported on Friday.

The 32-year-old man, dressed in black and carrying a backpack with a replica laser blaster poking out the side, alarmed diners at a food court in central Melbourne.

"It was a replica gun. We weren't sure what we were dealing with," Senior-Constable Daniel Sage told the Herald Sun newspaper. Photographs showed a gun closely resembling the weapon carried by Star Wars rogue Han Solo in the cinema classic.

The man had been on his way to pose for a community newspaper ahead of the 30th Star Wars movie anniversary when he was surrounded by armed police, forced to the ground and handcuffed.

Police said despite being a harmless replica and a close match to a weapon from a galaxy far, far away, the man would be charged with possessing an unregistered firearm.
 
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Intellectually dishonest. God I love being an American instead of in some left wing sissy country. OMG, IT LOOKS LIKE A GUN! COVER THE CHILDREN'S EYES! OHHH THE HORROR :what:
 
Doesn't a FIREarm have to FIRE something? Otherwise, it's not a FIREarm, is it? How can he be charged with that? That's like being charged for carrying an illegal knife because I have a piece of cheese in my pocket.
 
Ah. The old BlasTech DL-44.

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The BlasTech DL-44 is a heavy blaster pistol. It's more powerful than many other pistols, but the downfall of this is the cartridge is exhausted after just 25 shots, as opposed to 100 or so shots from conventional pistols. The blaster is widely favored by mercenaries and bounty hunters, as it is easily modified. This is the favorite weapon of Han Solo, who carries a modified version with efficient galvanic circuitry, which allows the pistol to deal more damage without draining additional energy.
 
Well, I mean it does sort of look like an old broomhandle Mauser with a big scope welded to the top of it...

Sort of... maybe?

So I guess if it was someone familiar with Curio & Relic firearms that happened to make the connection...?

Oh, screw it... they don't call it Oz for nothing, apparently! :p
 
Doesn't a FIREarm have to FIRE something? Otherwise, it's not a FIREarm, is it? How can he be charged with that? That's like being charged for carrying an illegal knife because I have a piece of cheese in my pocket.
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Like I said, they live upside down and the blood runs to their heads. You can't expect them to use logic.
 
"Police said despite being a harmless replica and a close match to a weapon from a galaxy far, far away, the man would be charged with possessing an unregistered firearm."

So if an Aussie cop presumes my tobacco to be cannabis, and it turns out to be tobacco, I can still be charged with possessing cannabis? Is Mike Nyphong Australias new Attorney General, or is it that Mike Nyphong comes from Australia?
 
Do the police down there realize exactly how frelling stupid this makes them look?

Frankly, it makes them look too stupid to be allowed out of the house by mommy and daddy.
 
The man had been on his way to pose for a community newspaper ahead of the 30th Star Wars movie anniversary when he was surrounded by armed police, forced to the ground and handcuffed.
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That should teach that rebel scum not to challenge the dignity and authority of the Empire.

IIRC, a lot of the personal weapons in the original trilogy were derived from actual weaponry. The BlasTech DL-44 from the broomhandle Mauser and the BlasTech E-11 Blaster Rifle from the Sterling submachine gun. If you have access to an older copy of "The Empire Strikes Back", you can see the spent 9mm blanks being ejected from the blaster that Lea Organa uses during the fight scene when she and Lando escape from the Cloud City.

The Sterling

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The BlasTech E-11

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Reading about the dren like this poor fan had to endure, I'm beginning to think that the whole English speaking world is loosing its mind.
 
Alwyas swore I saw a storm trooper with a mounted MG-32 or 42 on certain scenes
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You did, the Snowtrooper and Sandtrooper battle rifles are modded MG42/34's with scopes and the like added.

Crying shame if you ask me, but they did look cool.
 
While it's obvious that Australians have a totally different society from us and their society has some problems, it's pretty low to attack a society you know nothing about.

It's rather harsh to throw someone in jail for a novelty item.
 
The little guys in the robes used a cut down Lee Enfield with a Flash hider from a jungle carbine on it. It was used to hunt droids!:D

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Livin in Texas
 
What's next, arresting someone for the finger gun?

Then true disarmament will occur as they have to remove your fingers
 
jselvy; too late

jselvy, you're too late with your suggestion. Happened last year-year before in England. Three boys playing cops and robbers, using finger guns, had the cops called on them by a neighbor. They were arrested, fingerprinted, photographed, then released to their parents AFTER a psyche saw them for being "social deviants". Lord helps us all.:banghead:
 
Noooooo! Leave my sacred Star Wars alone!!! Damn Aussies! :D

Well, they can pick on 1-3 :eek:...but leave the originals (specifically "Empire") alone.....:evil:
 
he was just lucky he did not have prostrate issues too they would also get him on sex crimes for panty liners.
 
I guess you guys forgot that the last 3 star wars movies were made here :)

By the way - there is a difference between being charged and being "locked up". If it goes that far, I'm sure that a jury would agree with the comments posted here and return a verdict of not guilty. After several inquiries into corruption in recent times, police have lost a lot of 'discretionary' power here and must follow the letter of the law.

THR thread inevitabilities #72 - any mention of australia = someone calling an ENTIRE country "wimps". Guess what country has fought alongside the USA in WW1, WW2, korea, vietnam, gulf war 1, gulf war 2, afganistan ?

Oh and by the way, many wimps here agree with the comments posted in this thread.
 
They have been neutered since their glory days.

Whatever happened to that's not a knife this is a Knife?
 
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