Police seize 73 firearms in raid on Tenterfield hunting room

AN enormous cache of unregistered and illegally-stored guns has been seized from a hunting room in a home in the New England region of NSW which was decorated with mounted antlers and animal skins.

The cache of firearms were not registered

An enormous cache of unregistered and illegally-stored guns has been seized from a home in the New England region of NSW.

The property at Tenterfield was raided by NSW Police officers on Wednesday morning and was found to contain 73 long arms, a .22 calibre bolt-action pistol and a replica revolver.

The search warrant related to a Queensland Police investigation and also turned up 200 rounds of ammunition.

Police seized 73 long arms from the rural hunting room.

“None of the firearms are believed to be registered and (were) not being safely stored,” Queensland Police said in a statement.

Police photographs show the rifles hung on wooden racks on all sides of an apparent hunting room, which is also decorated with mounted antlers and animal skins on the floor.

It is understood Queensland Police had already been called to a property north of the border about the man’s unsecured weapons, so they contacted in their interstate colleagues to have a search done at his NSW address.

The man is expected to be charged in the coming days.