{"id":24985,"date":"2023-03-30T07:22:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T11:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=24985"},"modified":"2023-03-30T07:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T11:29:59","slug":"australian-man-arrested-over-ak-47-shaped-bong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2023\/03\/30\/australian-man-arrested-over-ak-47-shaped-bong\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian man arrested over AK-47-shaped bong"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Australian police have charged a man who was seen allegedly carrying what seemed to be an AK-47 assault rifle \u2013 but which turned out to have a rather different purpose.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Officers rushed into action after a flurry of emergency calls from north-west Sydney on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A helicopter joined the search before CCTV led police to a parked car.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A “gun” was recovered, but police soon realised it was in fact a bong – a device used to smoke marijuana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A 50-year-old man was later arrested in connection with the incident, police said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“A search of [a] vehicle by police allegedly located an imitation AK-47 assault rifle. With the assistance of Polair [helicopter], officers found a man in nearby grassland,” a New South Wales Police statement said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The man was later charged with possession of an unauthorised firearm and intimidation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He has been remanded in custody and his case will be heard in April.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Police will allege in court that the seized item was a bong, a water-filled filtration device used to smoke marijuana and other herbal substances, local media reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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NSW drugs laws state that it is an offence to “sell, supply or display for sale a bong\u2026 or the component parts, whether or not [it] is intended to be used to administer a prohibited drug”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Designed as a cheap and reliable weapon for the Soviet army by Mikhail Kalashnikov in the 1940s, some 100 million actual AK-47s are estimated to have been manufactured over seven decades.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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