Firearm ownership in Australia comes with responsibilities that go well beyond safe storage and accurate shooting. When a rifle or handgun has been fitted with…
A scoped rifle that has lost its zero is still sellable, but transparency matters. Many Australian shooters eventually find themselves staring at a setup that…
Buying a firearm from a pawn shop is meant to be straightforward — you hand over the cash, sign the paperwork, and walk out the door with the piece. The shop…
A firearm whose receiver is out of headspace is a tricky thing to own. Headspace is the precise distance between the face of a closed bolt or breech block and…
Becoming the unexpected custodian of firearms from a deceased neighbour with no surviving relatives is a scenario that unfolds more often than people realise…
Australia's approach to firearm ownership is among the strictest in the developed world, built around the National Firearms Agreement that binds the states and…
Three in the morning, somewhere in regional Queensland, the phone rings. A property owner has just discharged a firearm in self-defence, an intruder has fled,…
A round fires, the slide cycles back, and instead of the spent case flipping clear of the ejection port, it stalls, tips up, or clings stubbornly to the…
Losing a family member who happened to be a gunsmith is a layered loss. There is the grief, the estate paperwork, and then there is the workshop out the back…