
Wanding powers may capture more than just weapons, inquiry told
Carrying a set of keys on a train could result in a police officer asking you to empty your pockets under proposed Queensland laws, a public hearing has heard.
Carrying a set of keys on a train could result in a police officer asking you to empty your pockets under proposed Queensland laws, a public hearing has heard.
The trial of police carrying metal-detecting wands that has helped eradicate a cache of weapons including swords, meat cleavers, and tomahawks from Gold Coast streets will be expanded across all Queensland “safe night precincts”.
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Gold Coast police have ramped up Queensland’s first wanding trial, warning visitors to Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach party precincts they can be hit with metal detector searches at any time of the day or night.
An 11-week stint as a drug trafficker and gun runner has earned a Queensland man nine years in prison.
Arms manufacturer NIOA will invest $50 million to build a small arms and weapons factory but has yet to determine whether it will be in Brisbane, Lithgow, NSW, or Benalla in Victoria.
Brisbane-based ammunition manufacturer NIOA is investigating an expansion into guns and has pinched key staff and set up a base in Lithgow, the centre of gun manufacturing in Australia.