Home detention for machine gun merchant

A Tasmanian businessman who sold and shipped a $16,000 machine gun from Tasmania to Victoria has been sentenced. LATEST FROM COURT >>

A former guns dealer from Tasmania’s north has been sentenced to 10 months home detention after pleading guilty to multiple offences including selling an unregistered machine gun for $16,000.

Andrew Stewart Morrison – who ran a shop called Guns and Ammo – appeared before Justice Gregory Geason via video link to Devonport on Tuesday.

Breaking News Breaking News Andrew Morrison. Picture: Facebook.

Other offences included “rebirthing” two US pistols.

It is not the first time the former business owner has been in trouble with the law.

Last year Morrison was forced to surrender $20,000 worth of ammunition after being convicted of a storage offence.

The 58-year-old also worked as a security guard when he was in the firearms business.

The court was told his gun shop, in Victoria St, was raided twice in 2018.

On one occasion 10 firearms were seized along with dealer paperwork.

Breaking News Breaking News Andrew Morrison outside the Tas Guns-n-Ammo in Ulverstone. Picture: Facebook.

Computer data was copied during the second swoop and trace requests were submitted to ACIC in relation to the Phoenix pistols.

The Inglis Bren MK II fully automatic machine gun was found to have been shipped to Victoria after the illegal cash sale.

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