Western Australia Has Banned Gel Blasters!
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Email address of WA Police Minister: Minister.Papalia@dpc.wa.gov.au
Additional email addresses:
paul.papalia@mp.wa.gov.au
wa-government@dpc.wa.gov.au
Link to the full press conference video: fb.watch/689PmOU83R/
WA Gel Ball Protest Group: groups/13020...
Change.org Petition: www.change.org/p/paul-papalia...
Help Perth Gel Ball by sharing your gel ball story: perthgelballers.com/community...
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Happy to add any further links, just let me know where people can go to help.
Email address of WA Police Minister: Minister.Papalia@dpc.wa.gov.au
Additional email addresses:
paul.papalia@mp.wa.gov.au
wa-government@dpc.wa.gov.au
Link to the full press conference video: fb.watch/689PmOU83R/
Change.org Petition: www.change.org/p/paul-papalia-minister-for-police-petition-to-reconsider-gel-blaster-ban-in-wa?AU:0&recruiter=1211169719&
Help Perth Gel Ball by sharing your gel ball story: perthgelballers.com/community/gelball-stories/your-gelball-story/
Join Perth Gel Ball Discord: discord.com/invite/ZgjFXzJE
You can also add the Western Australia AIrsoft and Gel Ball Club Inc. Our website is: airsoftwa.com.au/ and our Facebook page is: facebook.com/WAAGBC
Gel ball protest planned fb.me/e/40NkMW9vJ
Add a link of the actual law. The 1901 Constitution. Then just get people to stand up for their constitutional rights. Rather than beg for them like the little biatches they obviously are.
Any law, even state constitutional law. That conflicts with the Australian Constitution of 1901, is illegal, and invalid.
This is not hard. It's simple.
You have a constitutional, and Human right, to be presumed innocent. Until proven guilty. Almost everyone knows that, even most morons.
They can NOT presume you'll use a Gelblaster to commit a crime. That is Constitutionally ILLEGAL.
For a law to be a real law, and not just legislation. The law has to have a proclamation certificate, signed by the AG, or, the Queen. They won't sign it for any law that's unconstitutional. Because they're liable for 10 yrs prison and a 10K fine. For impeaching on your Constitutional, and Human rights.
The Australian Constitution is the highest law in the land. It's ours "We the People". It is the be all to end all. The true rule of law, is on our side. So, why not just use it?
The 1901 Australian Constitution is the law of Australia. Nothing can override it. No guns act. no health act. Nothing. Not even the queen can impeach on your constitutional rights
Wake up Australia. They took the 1901 Aust Constitution out of the Aus school curriculum in the 70's for a good reason. None of you know the law, or your constitutional rights.
Let this a@# know the police, military government under law are in violation by law the act police for open Carry off firearms and high power weapons swat including explosive compounds which hear is completely criminal act how much do they have and they should be charged for firearms law to that act and any explosive device?? If I put on a rent a cop uniform and carry my pistol blaster and open Carry is that a crime??and unless your in international waters cops military government under your own act. And the training do the police go via a arms act to register to get it to the act or do they just give you one like the guy in south Australia on HPA there??. I have no issue with new color case and gas metal clip case??.a alternative is better than this!.
Just because you want to play pretend to be a soldier. How about you join the armed forces for real? No? Then keep your desire inside video games.
I legitimately feel like moving to another country. We are treated like children in Australia.
You can not do anything in Australia really getting worse each year. I lived overseas for that reason. But stuck here because of covid and travel bans. But soon as that's lifted I'm back to the free world. No more nanny state WA.
Definetly go to Europe. Countries like Austria, Poland, Czech, other sports like Airsoft are even larger, skirmishes goes on for days and have over 1000+ attendees. It's sad Aussies cannot have the same amount of fun or exercise purely because people cannot use their brains.
@@telamonize7202 I have an EU passport and direct family in Europe so this is definitely an option. The problem is my life is established here with kids and all, which makes it a very difficult decision to make. I would love to get into air soft, but yeah, straya.
@@alexgrovejones Europe would make a great destination post CV-19 for a nice vacation, not to mention if old enough even the kids could enjoy the great exercise and fun.
@@stephenpavy2501 try Germany, I heard it's great
It seems these guys just REALLY enjoy ruining other people's fun.
If your fun could get you killed? Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean that it won't happen. Would you rather they let it go until people are killed because of it? What if the police came to one of these calls and a criminal was somewhere else killing someone and the police couldn't be in 2 places at the same time? It doesn't even matter if the kid doesn't get shot, if someone who was somewhere else got killed. Are you saying you want it legal until people get killed? This isn't a movie, in real life we figure out the things that can kill us BEFORE anyone has to die.
@@musikSkoolWhat's next? Are you going to outlaw skydiving, dirtbiking, skateboarding, etc? Tackle football and UFC can cause injury or death. Maybe we should ban them? Theoretically a cop could mistake a gardening tool for a weapon. Don't even get me started on "squirt guns"!
Think about your implications before you speak. Maybe go outside and live a little. I'll live free and make my own risk assessments without the help of big brother. Thank you very much.
@@user-hc4hk5bs8l If your gardening tool is black and you are pointing it at people in the park, someone might call it in. Our actions have consequences. If it looks like you have a gun, the cops won't always be able to tell the difference. Sooner or later they will stop coming when someone says they see someone with a gun in the park, they will say that they can't come until you hear gunshots. Do you know how many people can be shot in 1 minute? If it was 100% legal to own something that looked like a gun then criminals that commit a crime with a real gun would throw it over a fence or into a bush and then tell the cops that it wasn't a real gun and there is no evidence against them. The world is not going to get safer unless we try to make it safer. If you want to raise the stress level of cops, they are not going to be thinking clearly. Accidents happen when people are under more stress. Make up a number of people that have to die before you would allow gun-look-alikes banned, and then when that number is reached, tell yourself that you didn't just kill that many people. Why not just legalize real guns? After all it's not your fault if a criminal kills someone...
@Documentary Detective II Do you want to live in a world where if someone has a real gun, people don't call the cops because they just assume it was fake? Do you want to be in jail because someone killed 10 people and you saw them with a gun, but you thought it was fake so you didn't call the cops?
@Documentary Detective II You feel very safe because you haven't seen real crime. I hope you will always get to live in a neighborhood with such little crime. Where I live if the sun has set and it is dark outside if you so much as point at a cop with black gloves on, or if a black person points at a cop, the cop yells "Put the gun down or I will shoot" several times but the person thinks to himself, "What gun, what is he talking about? Who is he yelling at, I don't see anyone with a gun. Is he yelling at me? Can't be, I'm not holding a gun." Then the cop ends up in court for killing someone without a gun. The fact is many, many people have died because of this, just because it hasn't happened where you live doesn't mean that it wont start happening if they relax the law. What about a farmer hitting someone in the back of the head with a shovel and killing them because they thought the person had a gun? When they see it was a fake gun they take it because it looks cool. They walk away, no one knows who did it. The cops have no evidence to go on and the news doesn't report it by saying "someone with a fake gun was killed", all they say is "someone was killed with a shovel" and you can live in your imaginary safe world where if no crime is reported, then there isn't any crime. People disappear all the time, no proof, no one thinks there is any crime. Don't get yourself killed. You might be able to tell the difference between a real gun and a stick, but you are lying if you think you can in the dark, after the sun has gone down, and someone in a black jacket points a black object at you and says, "Give me all your money, or I'll shoot. If you report this crime I'll kill you." If that happened to you, would you report it? Feel safe, by all means, but when a grown up tells you to stop doing something because it can get you killed, listen to them.
26 years in the defence force and doesn’t know the internals of a gel blaster are different to a real firearm shows he just incompetent for his position
No they know what they are doing
God forbid that the men that will be needed to defend the country have some level of training in tactics and weapons handling skills.
Works for the government. Over rates his intelligence.
@@everythingatlasgamingandmo1386 you joking right?
Or a liar...
...well suited to his position?
Ironically their whole argument is based on a possibility, preventing false calls that never end with a fatality. I feel pity for our Aussie brothers and sisters.
That's because they're pitiful.
They don't even wanna stand up for their constitutional rights. They want to beg for them. They don't make Australian's like they used to, and don't make Aussie's at all.
Don't waste your pity on those who get what they deserve.
@@dropbear9526 we do fight for are shit but the problem is kangroo court
I like how he got angrier and annoyed and started talking over the reporters when they brought up valid points
That’s when they’re starting to become convinced that they frigged up, and can’t bring themselves to argue against the other side.
It’s just trying to conceal the good points
She is not a reporter, but rather there to represent the side of gun lobbyists.
..... Oh OK.
@@gloomy5487 so the good guys in Australia then?
If you’re caught with a toy gun, you may be charged more than someone who is driving under the influence (an offence that has and continues to kill innocent people)
It's so painful watching the minister explain and justify this decision 😬
Very very painfulll lol
Very very very painful lol
Like you said, no one has died yet and yet he’s said “we aren’t dealing with hypotheticals” these guys haven’t done any research at all!
They're breaking the real law. 1901 Constitutional law. They're presuming you guilty before you can prove yourself innocent.
Think about that for a minute.
I swear to god if they get banned in QLD I'm gonna be so mad and I garuntee, after all of Australia has banned them, there will be major backlash. There already is.
i doubt they will get banned in QLD any time soon, we only just introduced new legislation at the start of the year to keep them legal, and now that every other state has benned them it would be dum to follow them, just think of all the $$$$ coming to the qld economy from people traveling from other state to come play gel ball because they cant do it in there own state
@@somerandomalbinodude let's hope you're right
@@somerandomalbinodude The police minister here in QLD is a gel ball player, and is not planning on banning it any time soon. So we're safe for now.
@Documentary Detective II yes but sert don't have to shoot a kid for gel blasters to be banned, it didn't stop WA
this is Australia, they will be banned eventually it just takes time
Me in Texas: “Dang Australia banned a toy? Das crazy”
* immediately starts looking online for another firearm to buy*
Been shooting up any schools recently?
amen
I'm Frensh and it's same from me
"Look we are dealing with reality not hypotheticals."
Proceeds to list a bunch of hypotheticals.
Please Queensland, your our only hope, don’t follow the rest of the country, keep the sport alive
Good luck. Hopefully Queensland won't fall the same fate. A lot of countries got gel blasters banned.
Begging the government pfffft haha ...yeah that works.... stand up for your rights !
Queensland has really well shown the rest of australia how to manage these properly, if they are seen in the public it is treated as a real gun crime so no one with a brain does it.
Lets hope that the pre,ier is too busy to pass a gel blaster law lol
I just wish that he was forced to do another press conference where they get called out on all of their literal lies and have to answer for them . Especially the part about being able to turn them into a firearm. It should be illegal that someone can lie to the public, especially when they are part of the justice system. That’s scary.
I still remember the day this happened.. I was so bummed out for my pals in Australia. Its absolutely ludicrous how folks are treated there.
I'm sorry that you have to deal with this level of government overreach in Australia. As an American libertarian it makes me sick.
You should be sorry for people like me, that know my constitutional rights, and want to fight for them. Don't feel sorry for the people that get exactly what they deserve. A foot on their throat.
@@dropbear9526 Commies are taking over Merica too mate.
@@edstar83 At least American's are resisting. Australian's embrace it.
@@dropbear9526 If you're refering to guns. Guns have never been a big part of Australian culture as they are in America. Plus they used a psycho who murdered 35 people with a semi automatic ,22 rifle in the 90"s "Port Authur Massacre" as an excuse to ban semi automatic weapons and crack down on gun ownership.
Aussies may be laid back but no one embraces a commie dictatorship unless they're useful idiots on the left.
There's been huge backlash over the ban here. Gel blasters were becoming popular since we never got to touch airsoft guns here. Even Megatron Transformer toys were banned here because he came shipped in package in his gun form. Also the majority of people here are against the lockdowns and the experimental vaccines sponsored by the Georgia Guidestones. Just watch local news reports on TH-cam reporting anything coronia virus and see comments and the like - dislike ratio.
If you havent noticed, the whole West has been infiltrated and subverted. Who was behind the sudden out of no flooding of Europe with hordes of majority men from Africa and Middle East with plans to continue into the future? Who is behind the sudden urge for non white South Americans to cross into North America? How do people from Sub Saharan Africa Middle East and Pakistan find their way into the Hispanic hordes? Who transported them there?
40% of the population of South America is white if European descents not just from Spain and Portugal but all over Europe, who come non of them are in the hordes trying to get into America?
*"We defeated the wrong enemy"
-General Patton.*
Referring to Germany, implying the bolshevik invaders of 1917.
Germany easily overran most of Europe during WWII. They easily conquered France and called a truce. There was strong opposition in America towards joining the war, not because they were afraid of Germany but because they were on the same side. America even used the swastika symbol pre WWII. The people behind the war forced America to pass a bill forcing Americans to join the war or be put in prison.
"History is written by the victors"
Wake up.
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@@edstar83 Albert Pike, Freemason. Look him up.
I notice everything, and miss nothing.
How do you call something that can't hurt you a weapon?
This is the same reasoning behind removing slides from parks, can't fall off a slide if there are no slides. . . .
You can conceal a kitchen knife inside a sock, might need to ban socks.
You can put marbles in said sock and beat the heck out of someone..
BAN SOCKS
Socks have got to go!
If there isn't a victim. Can there have been a crime?
@@ravenblackwing7888 In prison, the put tins of baked beans and spaghetti, in a pillow case. I shit you not. It's common, and doesn't hurt, it kills.
Australians are so tough, why are they so afraid of Gel/airsoft guns!?
They're even more skeeered of their public and political ...... Servants. The silly mofo's think their servants, are their leaders. "Ya can't fix stupid". God knows, I've tried.
I'm embarrassed to be associated to them.
Because middle/old aged politicians have no idea what they're fucking talking about man. Our governments no longer serve the people anymore. They just waltz around like a disabled kid just screeching retarded laws left right and chelsea
They want to ban nurf guns too.
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@@edstar83 🤣🤣🤣😂😂 what's next? Squirt guns? Lmfao
nah not all aussie, only WA government are cunt, I live in NSW and everything is under control
This is ridiculous, you could ban fists with the same reasoning.
Jesus stop, you will give them more ideas.
Cars are way more dangerous.
They’ll tell us to get our knuckles cut out next.
it's like if we put a five dollar knife that is lethal onto a nerf gun they wouldn't care. "nerf guns should be banned" and not knives
The fine for being in possession of a Gel Blaster in W.A after the amnesty is actually more then if i took an actual firearm down to the local park and fired live rounds at a tin can.
Work that out.....
They put such little thought into their laws it's sickening.
These guys are basically saying i saw a guy walking around with a beer bottle it must be banned because it can be mistanken and easily converted to a molotovcocktail
It is impossible to turn a gel blaster into a real firearm 😂 Seems like WAPOL have being getting into the drugs in the evidence locker.
One of the more sane replies I would say.
Sue tbat police officer via clsss action suit
As someone who has recently gotten into gel balling as a way to escape from my life, my anxiety and everything shit going on. The fact that its getting taken away for not fully thought through reasons is stupid. So thank you for fully explaining to me ways in which i can word the emails to certain politicians. Highly appreciated man.
You people willingly disarmed yourselves. You’re getting exactly what you deserve.
Welcome to every shooter/hunter in Australia's world you cant have fuck all and you live on the edge of getting it taken off you for nothing mate this country is a fucking joke
@@boomerkobold3943 ?? you make no sense, you sound American
I’m so sorry that you guys in Australia have to deal with these super strict laws
They're not laws. They're just legislation. Proper laws have a proclamation certificate. They can't get them for their corporate revenue raising legislation.
People obey them, because they're schooled morons and obedient idiots.
Only morons serve their servants.
Why are you sorry? Australia is among the best place to live in on the planet.
@John Smith Compared to where?
@@gloomy5487 I used to believe you until I went to the city. Dumb people everywhere.
If you get shot by police for using a gel blaster in public, it's not the blaster's fault that you got shot, it's your fault for failing to declare that what you have is not a real firearm.
Absolutely love how the police officer tried so hard to not point the gun at anyone while pointing it at the crowd
Why just don't make rules no gel blaster in public parks/place, that would make more sense rather than banning all gel blaster.
you mean like Queensland did? mypolice.qld.gov.au/news/2021/01/15/changes-to-replica-firearm-legislation-in-queensland/ i dont see how it would be all that difficult for the rest of Australia to copy them other than the fact they have there heads stuck so far up there arses
@@somerandomalbinodude exactly!
Thank you so much for sharing light on this. You’re defending the best cause
Heard about this yesterday. I don't agree with this. WAPOL goes nanny spec way too often. And this is an over reaction to gel blasters being mistaken for real fire arms. If WAPOL put as much effort into proper policing as they do with RBT blitzes on public holidays, and dispensing of infringements like a confectionary vending machine, this state might respect police and treat them differently.
It's not an over reaction. It's clearly an over reach.
No safety flag in the barrel of that real M4, magazine is still in and action closed, for all intents and purposes that firearm could be hot..... goes against all of the basic firearms safety practices just because they want to hold it next to a plastic toy and pass some draconian law, and the commissioner continually flags the crowd with the firearm whilst moving it on the table.
i was thinking that aswell, flag the entire crowd lmao wut
The commissioner is a bag of scat
Yes a totally unacceptable and irresponsible and just plain stupid thing they did in public. Go to any club or range and do this and bye bye your membership and licence most likely as well. Yet these dickheads do it in public and at the same time claim they want to make the community ‘safer’. There are so many fails in this presentation and the laws that went with it.
"Can be converted into real firearms" This guy should be fired or even charged for this statement alone. That's a straight up, 100% lie to the public's face as a government officer. If they still consider themself as some kind of "democracy" country, this level of stupidity is unacceptable.
We aren't even a democracy
Totally correct. How do you know when a politician is lying?? They’re lips are moving
Its pretty easy to tell a gerl blaster, mainly they dont make bang bang noises, and they dont leave flesh wound.
Crazy, I can have a real firearm, but I cant own a toy gun, plain idiocy.
How can gel blaster converted to firearm? That was a nice joke 😂😂😂
I love how quickly aggressive he gets when someone challenges the ban lmao
how about cops do there damn job.. innocent till proven guilty..
Yes!!!!! You get it! Just don't say that on the GBF Forum. Apparently, It's really bad. You'll get banned for 10 yrs like me.
Hey mate I love ur videos thanks for the wa conference vid we appreciate the support we have received from around the country and hopefully we will be able to fight this load of bs
4.35 "and can be converted into a real firearm" does that mean gelblasters aren't real firearms?
Airsoft was forbidden in my country untill a few years ago when an association was created in forming regulations in order for airsoft to be legally purchased and played only on specific locations. That's what it actually needs.
All this then a 95 year old in a nursing home gets killed by police with a taser!
Pathetic law! 🤦
The genius should also ban a safety boots with steel caps, just in case...
Dont give them any ideas
The amount of Veterans that play Gel Soft as therapeutic community engagement is stunning.
I joined Gel Soft for some fun but then saw the bigger picture of community engagement.
Banned it because it makes great training!! Corrupt!!
The people who make these stupid laws are a disgrace to the country
15 minutes before: They look like firearms, 15 minutes later: They are not like firearms...
Either Australia has Gun laws that work and restrict the possession, use and importation of actual Firearms and so there is no reasonable expectation that Gelblasters are real, or Australian Gun laws are so lacking and ineffective that the expectation of Real Firearms Such as AR-15's and AK's being easily available in the community is so prevalent that it would be easy to imply that Gelblasters could easily be confused with the real item... so which one is it?
"turn a gel blaster into firearm" i can go make a pipe shotgun for 50 bucks and about an hour of my time
Hello welcome to the press conference... from July 3rd we are announcing that we are not wanting to do our jobs as police officers.
Good gun safety by the police, yeah aim the m4 to the cameraman. 😉
I cringed when he crossed the entire room with a real longarm
It had the magazine in, dust cover closed so you couldn't see inside, and it was in semi-auto mode
@@dangster17 semi auto mode? Wtf are you talking about?
@@stevenguy2630 The fire select on the M4 was on semi-auto, dust cover closed so you couldn't see in. What don't u understand 🤣
@@dangster17 I didn’t see the left hand side of that m4 at any point, that is where the safety is located.
I literally just finished my DSG build and was ready for my first game and now this shit happens. I'll be sure to make a meme of that one part where he says that "making a $1000 purchase on a gel blaster is a bad investment".
Australia would not have had to go thru the sht they did if they had firearms. The government is supposed to serve you not the other way around...
It's so funny the absolute logic given by Brad, following this smooth brain statements from the police.
In today‘s China ，gelblaster is developing underground.The police at the grass-roots level actually have ability to explain the law freely because gelblaster isn‘t against law but not conform the security regulations.Some guys were confiscated from the police ，some were fined，some were even in jail.What a mad world！We are just toy-player，not the terrorists！What has happened to players in China and Australia is outrageous！
"...they've been seen walking around the bush..."
NOT THE BUSHHH!! ANYWHERE BUT THE BUSH!!!
Was it his mums bush though?
dam i was really looking forward to this!.
Lol. In what world are fully grown adults trusted with driving a 2000+ kilo vehicle but to not own a literally completely harmless recreational toy. TF are they smoking!?
The best way to look at it is this:
1. If UK, US, Canada, Hong Kong and plenty other countries that are safe allow these, then why the hell are we banning them. Even NZ has them! Not only they allow, they have no problems with Police shooting people holding them or any problems with those toys.
2. Police should be trained to identify a real and a fake firearm and even if the person with the gel blaster doesn’t surrender, the blaster aint gonna hurt you if they fire it.
3. Like Bradley already said, this is Australia, getting a Real Firearm is just as hard as winning the lottery. If you see a 16 year old with a gun, its most certainly a replica or gel blaster.
4. F*ckin Common sense mate. Any average criminal would hide their gun or conceal it. If they are teens and are running around shooting EACH other then it should tick to you its not real.
4. Please Get this Minister off and send him to the mines
I bet he played on the weekend and he got caught cheating and now He’s acting out he can’t cope that the fact he got caught cheating and not calling his hits
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Your arguements and eloquence on this topic are unsurpassed, it gives me hope to see an Aussie like you speak up like this.
The funniest part is the US doesn’t even have the most mass shootings are there any country
The hell is wrong with Australia
Weapon?its a toy
Police:i am stopid
These are not even paintball guns. And THIS is what is banned?
Not one person has died from gel blasters but how many Australians has died by the hands of the Australian police
This isn't a difficult one to resolve, I play airsoft in the UK and we have two types of airsoft RIF (Realistic Imitation Firearm) you can buy. You have the ones that look like the real thing and then one that is two tone so its black and then parts of the body are coloured in green, orange, blue or red. The two tone can be owned by anyone, but if you want one that looks like the real thing so you can play milsim you need a UKARA. To get a UKARA you have to play 3 games in a six month period and this is renewed every year and is done by the place you play airsoft. So its regulated by places that run the business, also BB guns do look like the real deal as that is a RIF and If you don't have a UKARA a retailer can't sell you a RIF....simple really, if you are willing to put sensible measures in place.
Still more bureaucratic than needed.
The thing is Australia brought in these imitation firearms laws in the mid-90s, which is way before airsoft became a fairly mainstream thing (in the West, anyway). Therefore airsoft never had a chance to establish itself as a hobby in Australia, so almost no one was lobbying for it at the time the laws came into effect. This is partly why Australia stands alone on this stuff, it’s largely due to timing. Had our imitation firearms laws been proposed a decade later, we may have had an established airsoft scene and possibly the types of exemptions that exist in the UK. Instead, the extremely strict laws have become part of the culture here, to the extent it’s basically unthinkable for any major political party to be perceived as “weakening” them by legalising things like gel blasters and airsoft.
As an Australian who is largely supportive of our gun laws when it comes to REAL guns, I would be happy to see airsoft legalised for adults without a criminal record, and harsh penalties for brandishing them in a public place. I doubt that’s ever actually going to happen though.
It seems to me that, to solve the problem of these gel blaster in public, they should just stiffen up the penalties for having these types of gel blasters in public, would be better public policy.
@Solace _ 20 years in prison sounds good?
That's what i was thinking. If they can legalised paintball, then why not this? it doesn't make sense. just implement the reasonable laws and regulations on owing one, like permit or license.
@@X9Metatron9X you can get permit for gel blasters, as you would any other firearms.
@@gloomy5487 then i dont see why they had to ban the owning of gel blasters, licensed owners paid for the registration.. Its weird that they had to ban it just because of some idiots out roaming with that, just because it look like real firearms, and like Brad said, the only people with the real firearms are the police. And instead of banning it, why don't they even consider enforcing the law on not bringing out the gel blasters into public spaces and must be use in a game field and anyone seen bringing out the blaster into public, with/without license should be fined because it has the potential to raise public worries as they probably have already evaluated and aware of, just like paintball and they should also raise the age usage of the blaster so that no idiot teenagers roam around with that and cause "false call" as they called it.
Gel blaster is just airsoft thats been nerfed.
Allowing paintball and banning a less lethal sport instrument, ridiculous.
Paintball gun has more potential of being lethal, it uses compressed air to eject the projectile, except that the ammo used for it is "paintball" hence the name. Imagine if u load the paintgun with a harden projectile, like marble or something, that thing has more than a 50% chance of causing fatality, some counties even use the highly compressed air system concept on their weapon for hunting animals such as squirrels, birds, monkeys etc. And what of a gel blaster? The worst it can do is probably cause eye injury despite its appearance, instead of fully banning the gel blaster industry why not take it as one of the extreme sports? And implement a little laws and regulations in owning one of the gel blasters. Even bows and arrows are 100000% lethal and archery is a sport smh.
@@X9Metatron9X You are not an Australian, so you don't have to worry about the topic.
Australia , the only country in the world that has a real fun police taskforce.
I was waiting through the entire questions section for someone to bring up one of his arguments
3:17, all you need to know to understand this whole video.
How many people have died while mining? How many people have died shooting gel blasters?
Hey leave us miners out of this ^^ Good point but I do not want my job banned...
Let us all ban dinner plates
I was supprised to have saw u in on of US Airsoft’s videos
So, I was just about to write that 'Hope they'll ban slingshots too, they can be really bad too' but a quick google-check showed that that's already been taken care of in some parts of Australia!
I mean, I always felt that we had pretty wicked laws concerning firearms here in Finland.
But we have nothing even close to Aussie rules!
Throwing out some love and support from Canada where we are facing the same problem with Airsoft.
I'm so sorry you live in Australia.
I'm sorry they live in Australia as well. They're seriously detrimental to my quality of life. How about you take them off my hands. I'll stay here.
Notice how they have removrd all Orange tips and any clourful plastic parts off the Gel Blasters 🤔
Notice I was banned from the GBF forum again, for simply stating constitutional facts and the actual law?
They heavily edited the thread I was posting in. They added my PM's, and my email address. Added posts, removed some.
The Admin are Government Shills. I'm not talking about Hamish. Can you let him know that for me please. I think he's a good bloke. But, he needs to take a look at exactly what just happened to me then, and 2 weeks ago.
Hamish is telling me to post in the correct thread. Same as the bloke that started the correct thread. I made a single post in that thread, 2 weeks ago, 2 lines, nothing even remotely offensive, and was banned for 2 weeks immediately.
Look at the first post in the thread Doc. i was invited to post in it, by the person that started the thread. BTW, same person I sent the PM's to that they posted in the other thread.
Watch ya backs.
The thread I was posting in today. Was pretty much about how to get around the law as it stands. So, how is me talking about the 1901 Aust Constitution, not completely on topic. It is the law, the only law that matters.
great vids mate love ya work and im in NSW they have been banned here from day 1
You guys' made your Gel Blasters look like real stuff. Ours look like Star Wars toys.
"we consulted with the groups and told them that we where going to ban" that is not consulting!
So true
Oh and guns are really loud!
This is absolutely ridiculous! Can't believe the laws Oz has! They might as well ban knives and forks and anything sharp!
Remember that time they outlawed dancing in Ireland. And they all started hopping on the spot quickly wiggling their feet so desperate to just enjoy themselves. It's just like the 3rd of July in Western Australia.
just wow! I've seen crap reasoning before and this exactly what the 2 gentemen were doing
This seems like an April fool's joke, except we're a few days past. Dude this is such BS, I'm sorry you have to deal with that
Disarm the police. Let the kids have their toys.
You had a 15 yr old kid in Melbourne, in an enclosed basket ball court, with a knife. Surrounded by police. They have non lethal weapons, several at their disposal. They shot and killed the kid.
I live in WA and I own 4 blasters. I got my blasters to shoot around the house and do tactical reloads. But now a few people decide to ruin it for us.
I think even if a minority didn’t misbehave they probably would have banned them eventually anyway
Are you the king of your castle. Or, are your public and political servants?
Blame the idiots making the rules. It is always a policeman's or headmaster's basic instinct to ban everything.In China they even ban free access to the internet, as well as airsoft.
By do you want to do tactical reloads? Shoot around the house? The ban is to allow such fledgling culture from developing. We don’t need nor want gun culture in Australia.
@@gloomy5487 the fact you claiming u love guns now ur saying u don’t want gun Culture in Australia. Hypocritical anti gun idiot
I love Australia in some ways but dang your government can be mega authoritarian
You don't even know mate...
Authoritarian how? By not allowing the country to develop useless and damaging gun culture?
@@gloomy5487 "gun culture" lol this is gel ball, even nerf rival wasn't allowed in australia thats madness
@@luketanton4056 it starts small and gets bigger just like anything. Even the guy in the video says that people were buying realistic gel blasters because they want to enact what they see in COD in real life. That is not something that we want in Australia. The American arms industry has been trying to breed new market here for years.
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Seriously that police minister has to get his brain re examined thinking gel blasters are real guns when he can't do a framework with a real firearms showing that the parts will never be able to fit inside in a gel blaster it will just jam the mechanism in the blaster and nothing will happen how PATHETIC
You shouldn't punish the people for the faults of the government. This is just stupid
I feel sorry for the gel ball community. I have mates that take their kids to the gel ball fields and bond over the sport.
Feel sorry for these guys 🙁
To be fair Gel blasters have been illegal in WA this whole time. They have never been legal. Many people have imported them against the law in the hope the government would reclassify them and they would be legal. There has been some comments that there would be a review of the Gel Blasters status after July but I wouldn't hold my breath. As is you can't even get them licensed as a firearm as they are replicas of military weapons which are illegal anyway. All other considerations are moot.
I have replica's? Not illegal sry
Well commented!
one thing that I think is completely braindead on behalf of the two men speaking is the fact that menacing someone with a gel blaster would still qualify as a crime, I'm not super learned on Australian law but what matters in any situation in the US is 2 fold, the intent of the wielder and the perception of the victim. The person committing the crime of assault is at fault, not the implement they use.
The suit lost my respect when he said a plastic toy gun can be converted into an actual firearm....if you are going to introduce a law at least base it on facts!
When little Johnny Howard banned guns in Australia following the Port Arthur tragedy via a press conference on the television, I was sitting at the dining table with my 9 year old son who listened to the broadcast. He then held up his cutlery and stated the following, “lucky he didn’t use these or we would be eating with our fingers”. This logic came from a 9 year old boy using his own thought process without any adult comment on the subject prior.
Another example of why I dislike Australia. How do you let a government become this authoritarian?
Australians are so sensitive. And this explains it all.
If they painted or made gel blasters in bright colours , this issue of imitation fire arms would not bean issue my thinks.
I know they are toy guns, ridiculous.
i am not sure, it seems to be a case of state police not wanting to put extra training in so they can deal with replica firearm related crimes. It's clearly not an issue in European countries and it's really a non issue here.
@@limeybonesjones7395 imitation fire arms are banned in most of my country Australia, have been for a few years. I live in nsw and had a couple gel blasters , fired at targets in back yard. Only two came with an orange muzzle and the m16 looked straight out of vietnam lol broke apart to keep springs for nerf mods and cut plastic bits up and dumped to the tip after realising I could go to jail for a toy gun. F that.
He says in the video you "could just paint it black"
Haha , penis gel blaster painted black with tactical light and forgip 🤣
@@BradleyPhillipsYT Could also go down to The Reject Shop, get something that looks almost the same for five bucks and paint that black. It would be just as impractical to kill someone with, laugh at this law, and be much cheaper...
It is both fortunate (in that no one has actually been killed) and unfortunate (in that it is kind of a made-up problem) that this minister is proposing law based on hypotheticals. That female reporter about 1/3 of the way into the video asks some really relevant questions.
Someone needs to chat to that reporter and highlight the lies to her., she may just make a big story about it and blow all his arguments on the ban.
9:16 “Anyone got any questions at all?”
Me: *raises hand* “Minister, are you mental?”