While these silly little rulings sound stupid (which they are) I think law makers were trying to rule out more military type rifles with big mags & all those military/assault rifle type features, while leaving what they saw as more sporting/civilian looking semi auto's, how ever my Old Marlin 39 lever .22 gets caught up as it can take near 20 rounds in the tube !

But being humans we looked at ways around those rules from day one to keep them & a lawyer wanted to get a restricted type rifle 3 or 4 years ago & had the rules/law over turned as it turned out it wasn't a law just some thing the Police said was a law, so for a couple of years it was a free for all & hundreds came pouring in again, then Bugger me if Parliament didn't go & make that Police rule a real Law dam it !

How ever as I said no SBR or Suppressor taxes, applications to fill out, just walk in buy it & walk out, we only need a Fire Arms Licence, like a Drivers Licence & buy as many as we like any time !