Rebels boss challenges gun ban that stops him from playing paint ball

A BOSS of a bikie club involved in a bloody turf war that led to a rival’s shooting death is challenging a gun ban that would make it easier for police to search him, saying it means he cannot visit his trainer or play paintball.

High-ranking Rebel Colin Websdale is challenging a gun ban that would make it easier for police to search him.

EXCLUSIVE: A boss of a bikie club involved in a bloody turf war that led to a rival’s shooting death is challenging a gun ban — saying it means he cannot visit his trainer or play paintball.

High-ranking Rebel Colin Websdale was served with a Firearm Prohibition Order, barring him from holding guns or ammunition. Breaches of the order could incur a penalty of up to 10 years’ jail.

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Websdale has told the Herald Sun he is challenging the order because it stops him from visiting relatives who owned guns.

“I can’t go to my trainer, who has a gun licence,” he said. “I can’t visit my family’s place; they are licensed gun holders.

Colin Websdale has slammed the new order.

“I can’t go to a paintball range, or else I’d get 10 years’ jail. Even though I’ve done nothing wrong.”

The orders, touted as gang-busting, would allow police who believed he had guns or ammunition to conduct warrantless searches of Websdale, his home, and even the Rebels’ Geelong clubhouse.

Websdale has been the state president of the Rebels and was boss of the Geelong chapter when Ross Brand, of the rival Bandidos, died in a hail of bullets in 2008.

Two men with links to that chapter were jailed for the killing, the culmination of a long-running feud in Geelong.

Victoria Police have issued about 50 Firearm Prohibition Orders to bikies, organised crime figures and felons who use weapons since the orders were introduced on May 9.

Ex-Bandido Bikie Toby Mitchell is also challenging a police order that bans him from owning guns.

Websdale is one of only three people to challenge them in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.

Notorious underworld figure Toby Mitchell is one of the others.

Websdale has circulated ­petitions against Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton’s decisions to deport fellow bikie gang figures.

It is believed Websdale has been particularly upset about the expulsion of British-born Rebel Danny Mousley, 57, who is now on Christmas Island awaiting deportation.

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He also slammed the cancellation of the visa of holidaying former Rebels national president Alex Vella, who ended up stranded in Malta.

Websdale has signed petitions calling for Mr Dutton to reverse his decision and allow Vella, whom he has visited, to return to Australia.

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