Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WEAPONS REGULATION 2016 - REG 88

88 How and where weapons must be stored

(1) A weapon possessed under a collector’s licence (weapons) that is not in the licensee’s physical possession must be stored, at a single location, unloaded in—

(a) a locked vault complying with section 90 ; or

(b) any of the following in a locked room (the
"storeroom" ) complying with section 89 —

(i) a locked gun rack complying with section 91 ; or

(ii) a locked container complying with section 92 .

(2) However, a person need not comply with subsection (1) if—

(a) for a category H weapon that is a firearm made permanently inoperable—the weapon is stored in a container complying with section 94 (5) and (6) ; or

(b) for a category H weapon that is a firearm made temporarily inoperable—

(i) there are no more than 30 weapons at the premises where the weapon is stored; and

(ii) the weapon is stored unloaded in a container complying with section 94 (5) and (6) ; and

(iii) the disabling item for the weapon is stored in a separate secure place that is locked; or

(c) for any other weapon—

(i) there are no more than 30 weapons at the premises where the weapon is stored; and

(ii) the way the weapon is stored complies with section 94 (2) .

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply while the weapon is in the physical possession of a body’s representative endorsed on the licence, or another individual, under the authority of a licence held by the body.

(4) In this section—

"disabling item" , for a category H weapon that is a firearm made temporarily inoperable, means—

(a) if the firearm is designed to allow its bolt, breech block, firing pin or other integral part of the firing mechanism to be removed—the bolt, breech block, firing pin or other integral part of the firing mechanism that is removed to make the firearm temporarily inoperable; or

(b) otherwise—the key for the trigger lock that makes the firearm temporarily inoperable.

"separate secure place" , in relation to storing a disabling item for a category H weapon that is a firearm made temporarily inoperable, means—

(a) if the container in which the weapon is stored has 1 or more lockable internal compartments—a lockable internal compartment of the container other than the compartment in which the weapon is stored; or

(b) otherwise—a secure place other than the container in which the weapon is stored.