Thread: Question: Retaining a licence with no firearms but without secure storage facilities

Originally Posted by blip

Surely the register will tell them if you actually have firearms?? I asked the vetting guy last time about the safe thing. He said if tou have a firearms licence you have to have a safe where you live weather you store firearms there or not. I guess the thinking goes if you own firearms your bound to have them at your house at some point..

I basically had the above explained to me nearly 20 years ago. The scenario was given that if I came home late one night from spotlighting and was locked out of mum/dads house, I was obliged to have a storage at my own residence in the event I end up going there without dropping off my firearm.

Yes plenty of people only use their firearms at the place they store them but might not live, but there will be others that store offsite and shoot somewhere else. Given enough time, sooner or later, someone will bring their firearm home.

So the law caters to the lowest denomination, which is that scenario. Otherwise you need two separate options within the law, one that says you must have storage at your home regardless of whether it contains anything, and another option which says you don’t need storage at home if you only shoot at xyz farm/range where firearms are stored.
Then it starts to get more complicated than having a token chain and padlock in the ceiling which never gets used until it does get used.