Firearms Regulations 2016
8Prescribed firearms – stun guns
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8 Prescribed firearms – stun guns
(1) For paragraph (f) of the definition of firearm in section 3 of the Act, a stun gun is a prescribed thing.
(2) In this regulation –
stun gun means a hand-held device, such as the weapon commonly known as a TASER, that is designed or adapted to administer, either through direct contact or indirectly through something conductive fired from the device, an electric shock to a human being for the purpose of dazing, disorienting, incapacitating, subduing or injuring that human being.