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 Submachine gun found during car stop - The Entrance 
 
 Monday, 19 June 2017 08:30:31 AM 
 
 Police have seized a submachine gun after stopping a car on the Central Coast last night. 
 
 Officers from Tuggerah Lakes Local Area Command stopped a Holden Commodore on Oakland Avenue, The Entrance, about 7.40pm (Sunday 18 June 2017) and searched the vehicle. 
 
 A bag containing an MP40 submachine gun with a missing barrel, a firearm magazine and 60 rounds of various ammunition was seized. 
 
 Initial examination of the firearm suggests it is in working order. 
 
 A 40-year-old man who was a passenger in the car was arrested and taken to Wyong Police Station. 
 
 He was charged with possessing a prohibited firearm and possessing ammunition without a permit and refused bail to appear at Wyong Local Court today (Monday 19 June 2017). 
 
 The firearm will undergo forensic examination to determine if it can be linked to any shooting incidents. 
 
 Investigations are continuing. 

 Nazi-era MP40 submachine gun seized, 40yo man charged, after traffic stop in NSW 
 
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 A 40-year-old man has been charged with possessing a prohibited firearm after police seized a German submachine gun during a traffic stop on the New South Wales Central Coast last night. 
 
 Police found the MP40 submachine gun after they pulled over a Holden Commodore at The Entrance about 7:40pm. 
 
 The weapon was developed in Nazi Germany and used extensively in World War II. 
 
 Police seized a bag containing the gun, a magazine and 60 rounds of ammunition. The gun's barrel was missing. 
 
 The man police charged was a passenger in the vehicle, which was stopped on Oakland Avenue. 
 
 Police said the gun appeared to be in working order. 
 
 Shane Casey, senior curator at the Australian War Memorial, said the weapon was used extensively by the German army. 
 
 "It's a very robust weapon and was also souvenired during the war by Allied soldiers," he said. 
 
 "We've got examples here in our collection. You would find it after the war being used in Northern Ireland and there's also examples that have turned up in Vietnam and Cambodia. 
 
 "Initially it would have been designed to be carried by troops in vehicles or paratroopers because it's quite small and has a folding stock." 
 
 Mr Casey said the weapon was collectible. 
 
 "Anyone who is interested in Germany army history or the second World War would recognise this weapon immediately," he said. 
 
 The weapon will undergo a forensic examination to determine if it was linked to any shooting incidents. 
 
 The man will appear in Wyong Local Court today. 
 
 Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, world-war-2, history, the-entrance-2261 
 
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– Police have arrested a 40-year-old man in Australia after they found a Nazi sub-machine gun and 60 rounds of ammunition in the car he was riding in during a traffic stop. New South Wales police say they're performing a forensic exam in order to determine whether the weapon can be linked to other incidents, and the man is being denied bail on a prohibited weapons charge while they do so. "It's a very robust weapon," Shane Casey, senior curator at the Australian War Memorial, tells ABC Australia. "Anyone who is interested in Germany army history or the second World War would recognize this weapon immediately." Australia's strict gun control laws require that all firearms be registered and that people who use them have a license to do so. Just last week, the country initiated a national gun amnesty in response to growing terrorism threats and the flow of illicit firearms across its borders, reports the BBC. Anyone found with prohibited weapons can face up to 14 years in prison or fines that exceed $200,000. In 1996, a similar amnesty went into effect in response to shootings in Port Arthur, Tasmania, that led to 35 deaths. After destroying 650,000 firearms in that amnesty, the BBC notes that gun crimes dropped quickly. (There have been no mass shootings in Australia since the 1996 amnesty.)