Firearm categories
8 Firearm categories
The regulations must provide for the following categories of firearms and specify firearms that are in each category —
category A;
category B;
category C;
category D;
category E;
category H.
The regulations may provide for other categories of firearms and specify firearms that are in those other categories.
The category of a firearm is the category that the firearm is in under the regulations.
If a firearm is not in any category, the firearm is taken to have been prescribed by the regulations as a prohibited firearm unless the regulations provide otherwise.
Subsection (4) does not prevent —
a firearm that is in a category from being prescribed by the regulations as a prohibited firearm; or
all the firearms in a specified category from being prescribed by the regulations as prohibited firearms.
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