A sentence of 6 years 6 months for LCQ trafficking where the quantity is 1.92 times the threshold is manifestly inadequate, even with significant mitigating factors including an early guilty plea, childhood dysfunction, intellectual limitations, and the role of a covert operative. The Gregory principles requiring increased sentences for LCQ trafficking, and the standard sentence of 16 years, demand sentences well above single figures for offending in this quantitative range. Firearms offending committed within weeks of service of a Firearm Prohibition Order, by a person with multiple prior firearms convictions, attracts significant specific deterrence and community protection considerations that substantially limit the weight of mitigating factors.
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