A HEARING date has been set in 2021 for a man accused of selling replica firearms at AgQuip in Gunnedah last year.
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Jaincong Zheng faces five charges after police raided the stall he was operating at the field days on August 22, 2019.
Zheng is charged with carrying on the activities of a firearms dealer without being licensed; possessing an unauthorised pistol; and three counts of possessing an unauthorised prohibited firearm.
Magistrate Peter Thompson has fixed the case for hearing, after the defence confirmed it would fight the allegations.
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Mr Thompson ordered the defence to file its expert statement and two videos by mid-January. Police have also been ordered to file its expert statements before the end of January. The case will be heard in early-May in Gunnedah Local Court.
Zheng remains on bail.
He was initially facing more charges but some have since been withdrawn.
Zheng had been working at the three-day event in Gunnedah and was arrested at the AgQuip stall on the morning of August 22, after a tip-off to police.
At the time, Oxley police seized what they claimed were 106 replica firearms, which they allege are prohibited items.
After Zheng's arrest, police had alleged the replicas - 45 pistols, 18 air pistols, 42 sub machine guns and one assault rifle - were being offered for sale. The officers seized all of them and more than $5000 in cash.
Zheng remains on conditional bail. He was granted bail in Tamworth Local Court a day after his Gunnedah arrest. He was bailed to live in Sydney, among other conditions.