December 9, 2016
The Adler A110 lever-action shotgun, which has been the subject of more than 12 months speculation in the media, will become available again to Australian shooters … but most won’t be happy.
State Premiers and Chief Ministers at Friday’s Council of Australian Governments meeting agreed to classify the seven-shot Turkish lever-action shotgun as a Category D weapon.
This should prompt the Federal Government to lift the current import ban.
The Adler A110 had previously fallen in Category A – which would have made it available to more shooters – a categorisation that alarmed the anti-gun lobby and led to the import ban.
Category D weapons include self-loading centrefire rifles, self-loading shotguns, pump action shotguns with a capacity of more than five rounds, and self-loading rimfire rifles with a capacity of more than 10 rounds.
Category D weapons are usually restricted to professional feral animal controllers in special circumstances – which will now make legal ownership of the Adler A110 much harder.
The Adler model that has been the subject of so much controversy has a magazine capacity of seven rounds, with another round in the barrel.
But a version of the A110, modified to have a capacity of five rounds, has been readily available for sale for months.
This will now be classified as a Category B weapon.
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