Continuum rifle - real gun or made up?
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tubachris85x
Master Member
Ohh look at that. It's an airsoft gun. It's actually based off a fictional weapons manufacturing company "Poseidon" in the anime universe "Ghost in the Shell," as well as the world of "Appleseed Ex Machina." I almost bought one of these
tubachris85x
Master Member
Yea, the lower and upper receiver of an M4/M-16 style body is there...just with everything else added. Hell, even the folding stock is an M4 style with a shell built over it. I think that's really what the companies did...took their existing M4/M-16 Rifles and built the custom body kits for them to be packaged together
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What if you had someone get one, tear it apart and remove the airsoft components, re-assemble it and ship it to you?
Pretty sure Customs would still stop it. They are even wanting to tighten the laws more on non-firing replicas in my state. We are allowed to have some things they can't in most other states at present. I might check with our state police and see what they say but I suspect it will be NO.
tubachris85x
Master Member
Yikes......what about shipping it in pieces? Definitely gonna cost more..
They will stop Airsoft parts as well.
Copper9
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Dude, his country doesn't allow "Airsoft" guns. -Where the heck is he gonna get a real AR-15?
armouredheaven.com.au sells various m4/m16 based toys, some of them have removable mags and adjustable stocks.
I've seen similar toys at Paddy's Markets (Sydney, NSW), so there might be the same things available in the Brizbane equivalent.
The undersized kid's toy that you have a picture of in your post further down the page also seem to crop up there once in a while.
Maybe a disassembled outer-shell (all the bits except the airsoft gun inside) could be posted from O/S?
I've had a resin PKD blaster kit sent to me from the US in the past with no problem.
But yeah, that's what I was referring to.
I'll have a look at the site for future reference.
We don't have a Paddy's here in Brisbane anymore. It's now fancy apartments.
I have already considered the option and have a request for clarification regarding the law in with the Qld Police Weapons Licensing Branch. It's a reasonably expensive Airsoft gun to be gutting though, not just a $15 pistol from Walmart.
I have a full (mostly) metal PKD kit which cleared customs with no issues. Didn't even need my B709 which I had ready.
Does it have any kind of Airsoft logo/markings on the outside casing at all? Not being marked as Airsoft might help the shells get through as lots of cast resin/plastic prop gun parts come through OK.
Well so much for just trying to get the casing shipped over. I got a response from the Weapons Licensing people which says
Information obtained at this office indicates that this item may be contructed from the upper and lower receiver of an M4/M16 carbine / rifle.
This would make the item a category R weapon as provided for in section 8 subsection(1)(a) of the Weapons Categories Regulation 1997.
Should the item not have the upper and lower receivers of the M4 / M16 in built, the item would be considered a replica of such weapon and would also be classified as a category R weapon.
To lawfully possess category R weapons such weapon must be rendered permanently inoperable by a licensed Queensland armourer who will issue a Form 31 "Certicate of Firearm/Weapon Being Permanently Inoperable".
This will also apply to Airsoft weapons irrespective of whether the internal mechanism has been removed or not.
In the instances outlined above, to lawfully acquire these items, the usual Permit to Acquire (PTA) requirments will apply.
You are advised that from previous decisions regarding anything "Airsoft", the Authorised Officer Queensland Police Service Weapons Licensing will not approve the importation of these items.
Information obtained at this office indicates that this item may be contructed from the upper and lower receiver of an M4/M16 carbine / rifle.
This would make the item a category R weapon as provided for in section 8 subsection(1)(a) of the Weapons Categories Regulation 1997.
Should the item not have the upper and lower receivers of the M4 / M16 in built, the item would be considered a replica of such weapon and would also be classified as a category R weapon.
To lawfully possess category R weapons such weapon must be rendered permanently inoperable by a licensed Queensland armourer who will issue a Form 31 "Certicate of Firearm/Weapon Being Permanently Inoperable".
This will also apply to Airsoft weapons irrespective of whether the internal mechanism has been removed or not.
In the instances outlined above, to lawfully acquire these items, the usual Permit to Acquire (PTA) requirments will apply.
You are advised that from previous decisions regarding anything "Airsoft", the Authorised Officer Queensland Police Service Weapons Licensing will not approve the importation of these items.
