Christmas gun billboard found to breach rules after over a dozen complaints

Ad Standards finds Brisbane ad breached firearm storage rules but product ‘legally allowed to be advertised’

The advertising industry’s regulatory body Ad Standards has upheld more than a dozen complaints about a Brisbane billboard depicting a handgun under a Christmas tree.

The billboard, advertising the weapons retailer Gun World Australia, was criticised by the Queensland police commissioner, Ian Stewart, last month. Alongside the image of the wrapped pistol are the words, “What’s under your tree this year?”

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