Collectors

Look out for firearms collector and Australian Shooter magazine writer Leo Laden on the ABC’s Collectors show in September. A series on collecting, collectibles and collectors, the show hosts a team of experts and investigate ‘the many and varied objects, items and entities, that we collect and establishes whether they’re trash or treasure.’

Leo was flown to Hobart in mid-July to finish the recording after the team spent a day at his property in Western Australia to view his Colonial Arms Museum. While the date is yet to be confirmed, September 7 has been penciled in at this stage.

Leo said he hoped to be able to explain the foolishness of Australia’s antique firearm licensing laws on the show and question why in Western Australia police are still destroying guns from the colonial days ‘to keep Australia safe’.