All firearms licence holders must comply with the laws relating to secure storage and transportation of firearms and ammunition.
Download the guide
To make sure you meet all the requirements, familiarise yourself with the whole guide.
Secure Storage and Transportation Guide for Firearms and Ammunition (PDF, 6.5MB)
What’s in the guide?
The guide includes detailed information and pictures to help you meet requirements.
Storing firearms safely
This section of the guide includes information about Police checks on your storage set-up.
Security for non-prohibited firearms
This section of the guide tells you how to meet requirements for:
- steel cabinets, containers, or receptacles
- display cabinets
- securing a single firearm to a building
- racks
- trigger locks
- wooden cabinets
- ammunition storage
- building security.
Travelling with firearms and ammunition
This section of the guide tells you how to meet safety requirements when you’re travelling. It includes information about:
- unattended vehicles
- passenger ferry
- motorcycles
- public transport and public places
- overnight journeys
- cords and cables
- mobile homes, campervans and caravan units (a boat has the same requirements as a mobile home)
- hunting and pest control.
Security for endorsed firearms
This section of the guide tells you how to meet requirements for:
- steel safes, boxes and cabinets
- room construction – doors, locks, windows, alarms, walls, ceilings and floors
- steel and concrete strong rooms.
Shooting clubs and shooting ranges
This section of the guide sets out what shooting clubs and ranges must do. It includes recommendations about:
- storage facilities
- security on premises
- ammunition
- inspection
- endorsed firearms on the premises.
Video guides
The following videos help you comply with storage and transportation rules.
Installation Kit Required for Secure Firearms and Ammunition Storage:
This video shows you the basic tools you need to install a cable lock system or a steel safe.
General Property Security for Firearms and Ammunition Storage:
This video shows you what to consider to improve security at home.
Installation Process for Basic Cable Lock System:
This video describes what a cable lock is and how to install it. Cable locks are used for securing a single firearm to a dwelling.
Installation Process for Steel Safe:
This video covers what you need to think about before you install a steel gun safe, and how to install one.
How to Securely Store Ammunition:
This video shows you how to comply with the law about storing firearms and ammunition separately.
Secure Firearms and Ammunition Storage in Motorhomes/Caravans:
This video covers what you need to know about firearms security in motorhomes and caravans.
Storage of Semi-Automatic Firearms in Vehicles During Transportation:
This video shows you what to think about when you transport semi-automatic firearms (or other firearms that do not have easily removable working parts).
Storage of Bolt-Action Firearms in Vehicles During Transportation:
This video shows you what you need to know when you transport bolt-action firearms.
Transportation of Firearms and Ammunition: Unattended Vehicles:
This video shows you how to comply with the law when you stop for a break during transportation of firearms.
