A 21 year old man was arrested and charged at Cobar Police Station on Monday afternoon after he used an imitation gun to threaten another person. Police seized the gel blaster pistol (which resembles a Glock handgun) from a home in Wetherell Crescent at 4.20pm after executing a search warrant on the premises. The man was charged with intimidation and possess a prohibited firearm and was bailed to appear at Cobar Local Court next month. According to NSW laws, ‘imitation firearms’ are also treated as firearms. An ‘imitation firearm’ is an object that regardless of colour, weight or composition or the presence or absence of any moveable parts, substantially duplicates in appearance a firearm (apart from any object that is produced and identified as a children’s toy). If a person is in possession of an air gun, that imitates a more serious firearm, they can be found guilty of a more serious offence. In NSW, possessing or using a firearm, including a BB gun or gel blaster, without a licence or permit carries a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment.
A 21 year old man was arrested and charged at Cobar Police Station on Monday afternoon after he used an imitation gun to threaten another person. Police seized the gel blaster pistol (which resembles a Glock handgun) from a home in Wetherell Crescent at 4.20pm after executing a search warrant on the premises. The man was charged with intimidation and possess a prohibited firearm and was bailed to appear at Cobar Local Court next month. According to NSW laws, ‘imitation firearms’ are also treated as firearms. An ‘imitation firearm’ is an object that regardless of colour, weight or composition or the presence or absence of any moveable parts, substantially duplicates in appearance a firearm (apart from any object that is produced and identified as a children’s toy). If a person is in possession of an air gun, that imitates a more serious firearm, they can be found guilty of a more serious offence. In NSW, possessing or using a firearm, including a BB gun or gel blaster, without a licence or permit carries a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment.
Nixen Osborne instructing Harlow Chaplain and Declan Sharpe at last week’s Totem Skateboarding school which was provided by the Cobar Shire Youth Council as a free activity during the school holidays. The focus of the beginners session was learning to get your balance while kids at the intermediate sessions learnt […]
Local employees nominated for mining industry awards Two of Aurelia Metals’ employees have been shortlisted as finalists for the 2022 NSW Mining Industry & Suppliers Awards. Laura Barnes, Environment and Social Re-sponsibility Officer at Peak Gold Mines and Daniel Kim, a Mining Engineer at the Hera Mine, have both been […]
After being part of the Cobar community for the past 141 years, the Cobar Masons held their final function in Cobar on Satur-day night. For many years the Freemasonry as an or-ganisation world-wide was shrouded in secrets and mystery but a few years ago, all that start-ed to change and […]
