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 group of Year 9 and 10 students and their teachers from Cobar High School had the opportunity to visit Canberra last week. As part of the excursion, students re-enacted a debate in Old Parliament House, met with our local Federal Member for Parkes, Mark Coulton, at Parliament House and […]
Among those providing care for the residents at the Lilliane Brady Village (which is currently in lockdown due to a COVID outbreak) is Enrolled Nurse Kathleen Newman (helping out from the Cobar Primary Health Care Centre), NSW Health Registered Nurse Judith Manning from Wellington and Lilliane Brady Village staff member […]
Prior to the Cobar Picnic Cup five horse race meeting being held at the Dalton Park Horse Sports Complex on Saturday after-noon, another important “thoroughbred” race took place earlier that morning. The Derby, Blue Band Yearling Breeders Plate race got underway at 8am on Saturday when 593 racing pigeons were […]
