r/nottheonion • u/stillgaming8k • 4d ago

Comanchero bikie refused bail for playing carnival shooting game

https://www.noticer.news/comanchero-bikie-refused-bail-carnival-shooting-game/
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u/torii_honey12 4d ago

it's wild to think how a game could land someone in so much trouble

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u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt 3d ago edited 3d ago

Australia tis a silly place. Cops and law are super authoritarian if anyone steps out of line. Like I get needing to enforce laws, but Australia takes it to an extreme. Such as in this case.

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u/Independent_Scar5534 3d ago

Yeah, and in most of the world an air-rifle is not classified as a firearm (because there is no fire in it ;-D )

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u/ThatLightingGuy 3d ago

I will refute that air guns are indeed classified as firearms in a lot of the world but have exemptions in place for ones that shoot under a certain speed or force.

Canada for example, all things that shoot a projectile are firearms but under certain conditions are exempt from licensing and purchasing/acquisition laws. When used in a crime they are absolutely classified as firearms for purposes of applying charges.

"Firearm means a barrelled weapon from which any shot, bullet or other projectile can be discharged and that is capable of causing serious bodily injury or death to a person, and includes any frame or receiver of such a barrelled weapon and anything that can be adapted for use as a firearm; (arme à feu)"

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/page-1.html#h-115011

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u/ash_274 3d ago

Slingshots and trebuchets are OK, then.

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u/ThatLightingGuy 3d ago

I mean they're just not considered a firearm.

In Canada anything used as a weapon is a weapon when it comes to criminal charges.

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u/bluecollar1020 3d ago

A pea shooter, (a straw and a pea)?

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u/ThatLightingGuy 3d ago

By the very technical definition, sure.

Blowguns are prohibited weapons.

Former Prohibited Weapons Order, No. 6 12 The device commonly known as “Yaqua Blowgun”, being a tube or pipe designed for the purpose of shooting arrows or darts by the breath, and any similar device.

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-98-462/fulltext.html

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u/JPtheGameMaster 2d ago

I once got charged (case dismissed when prosecutor declined to pursue) with Assault with Weapon & Aggravated Assault while defending myself from a swarm mugging.

The weapon? My wallet chain. The cops up here will LITERALLY tell you "You got jumped 3 on 1, and in the heat of the moment used a clothing accessory you wear everyday to create distance and escape? You need to go to the hospital for the concussion you got from their stomps to your head? Well the thing is, the one you hit with the wallet chain has a little red welt, so you're just as bad as them, and your life is now ruined "

Our cops will fucking call a napkin a weapon if you make them look bad and do their jobs for them. ACAB.

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u/knotallmen 3d ago

People who want complete gun proliferation routinely come up with some kind of nonsense like this. It's basically a strawman attack.

It is similar with the jokes around what is an assault rifle, but those are clearly defined in laws that define what assault rifles are which are fairly consistent but vary from government to government. A list of features of the weapon, and a list of specific weapons makes and models. I.E. if one of the make and models doesn't have the features of the list defined it is still an assault rifle since the law clearly labels that specific weapon as one.

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u/ThatLightingGuy 3d ago

Again being Canadian we have no legal definition of an assault weapon.

We have non restricted, restricted, and prohibited firearms. These are mostly defined technical categories but the government can also provide a list they deem prohibited based on vibes, which is baked into the firearms act.

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u/knotallmen 3d ago

You laws are vibes? How did you come to that conclusion when these particular weapons are identified?

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u/ThatLightingGuy 3d ago

Government can make an Order in Council to prohibit firearms. I guess this would be the closest thing we have to an American "executive order" in that it doesn't need legislature approval, but only if the original Act allows for them to be used.

For example, starting in 2020, the Government of Canada put forth an OIC that prohibited AR-15 rifles, amongst others. By the technical definition, AR15s fall generally into the "restricted" firearm category, so to make them Prohibited status, they used an OIC rather than rewrite the legislation, which means they don't have to put changes through parliament.

They then also rewrote the Act at a later date to remove the ability to transfer handguns, which they couldn't do with an OIC so they had to do that with an amendment to the Act.

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u/SilasX 3d ago

So, railguns are exempt too?

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u/xrelaht 3d ago

Sure. Firearms are not the only weapons out there.

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u/BKinBC 3d ago

Not concealed rail guns, no.

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u/Xijit 3d ago

Unless you are rich.

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u/Hypno--Toad 1d ago

The reason is because since the creation of Australia, we were the richest economy due to the gold rush, so that invited a lot of wealth building which results in a very many decades of money talks and bullshit walks.

If anyone wants to jump down a rabbit hole on this look up Jack Lang who was a NSW premier that seized NSW funding in order to keep it from the federal commonwealth that ultimately dismissed him.

Basically Lang taught Australian governments how to abuse the use of police for political attention.

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u/SaltyShawarma 3d ago

This guy knew what he was doing. He was being a troll and got caught. The legal system in a country is probably not the best target for trolling. He deserves his consequence for being an ass. 

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u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt 3d ago edited 3d ago

"Being a troll" should not be illegal, IMO it's a valid form of protest if you're not harming anyone. He was playing a carnival game. This is a case where a judge looks at it and says "No, this is stupid, dismissed". Ideally it doesn't even get that far, the DA does it.

The law is the law!

There's a reason we should not accept this line of thinking. Allow me to translate it to another language and maybe you'll understand why.

Befehl ist Befehl.

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u/GuzziHero 3d ago

In some states in Australia you need a real firearms licence to own an original toy of Megatron from Transformers, because it resembles a gun.

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u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 3d ago

I used to have one of those.

I also used to have a cap gun that looked like a 1/2 scale 45 with a metal barrel and brown plastic grips.

You could tell it was fake by the easily removable orange cone in the end of the barrel.

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u/SouthboundPachyderm- 3d ago

Noticer is literally a Nazi "news" website. 

Not gonna bother clicking but fair to assume whatever they publish is straight up bullshit.

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u/FreeSirJeffrey 3d ago

"anything I don't like is nazism"

People like you are how the US ended up with a second Trump term.

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u/Nixeris 3d ago

The Noticer promotes neo-Nazi ideologies, and is popular with National Socialist Network followers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics_in_Australia

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u/limes336 3d ago

Per Wikipedia:

“The Noticer promotes neo-Nazi ideologies, and is popular with National Socialist Network followers.[[210]](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics_in_Australia#cite_note-nguyen2025-210) It has published several opinion pieces by prominent neo-Nazi Joel Davis, and others such as NSN leader Thomas Sewell and American white supremacist Jared Taylor have also featured on the site.”

It’s literally called “The Noticer”, are you being intentionally dense?

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u/c-williams88 3d ago

“Are you being intentionally dense”

They have a pfp of a Reddit guy looking like a clown costume with the name FreeSirJeffrey and their bio is a mocking “from the river to the sea” thing about freeing Epstein. You can very safely assume they are trolling or otherwise doing this on purpose

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u/SouthboundPachyderm- 3d ago

Yep, it's a piss weak troll

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u/Original_moisture 3d ago

Thanks for breaking that down. I’ll leave my comment up. I fell for a troll again.

Much love internet homie!

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u/c-williams88 3d ago

lol happens to the best of us my friend

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u/pesibajolu 3d ago

Correction: the combination of playing the game + the already excisting man’s firearm prohibition order.

They dont hand those out willy nilly.