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.
A very excited young jockey was Hollie Hull when she rode her career first winning double, on Sunday, at Cobar’s Pop Up Races event. Hollie is apprenticed to trainer Clint Lundholm and both her winners, Sin City Belle and Mega Celebration, are from the Lundholm stable at Dubbo. Sin City […]
The CATS’ (Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad’s) Long Course club records were broken in both the male and female classes of the January Triathlon event on Sunday morning. Finlay Robinson, who set a new Short Course record for the club on debut in Decem-ber, now holds the Long Course record […]
Local Miranda Fry has joined State Member for Barwon Roy Butler’s electorate team and commenced working out of the Cobar electorate office last week. Miranda explained her new role as a Barwon Senior Electorate Officer is apolitical, meaning she’s employed by NSW Parliament to work for the local member, Mr […]
