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.
Cobar Shire Councillors will tomorrow discuss a recommendation from the Local Traffic Committee to consider preparing a report to look at changing the current rear to kerb parking to nose in parking along Marshall Street. There’s pros and cons to both parking methods with advocates of reverse angle parking believing […]
While Cobar’s Running On Empty Festival (ROEF2022) next month will be “all about the cars” it will also have a focus on music. All of the live music at this year’s festival has a local connection. ROEF’s headline band, Edgecliff, who wowed Cobar audiences on New Year’s Eve at the […]
The NSW Government will invest more than $420,000 to install a perimeter fence, gates and signs around a part of the Kaloogleguy Crown Land Reserve adjacent to the western side of the town. The work is part of a staged plan to clean-up asbestos contamination on the site. A 60-hectare […]
