Gunsmith (ANZSCO 323312)

On the Regional Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Gunsmith on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Gunsmith comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

TRA assesses Gunsmith through the same six-program structure as the rest of this family, and publishes no occupation-specific qualification page for it. ANZSCO's own occupation entry is unusually direct for a trade this size: “Modifies, services and repairs rifles, revolvers and other firearms. Registration or licensing is required.” That firmer wording — “is required” rather than the “may be required” used for most Skill Level 3 trades — is ANZSCO's own signal, separate from anything TRA's Licensing page names, since Gunsmith is not one of the three occupations TRA runs through its own OTSR-to-licence pathway.

Where these applications come unstuck

The real risk here has nothing to do with TRA's paperwork and everything to do with a licensing layer TRA never mentions: Australian firearms work sits inside state-administered dealer licensing that applies to repairing, servicing and modifying firearms as a business activity, entirely separate from any migration skills assessment. A NSW licensing page states plainly you need this licence if you intend to “repair, maintain or test firearms.” Victoria requires all firearm dealers and their employees to meet “fit and proper” standards — a vetting step with nothing to do with TRA at all.

An honest read on this pathway

Gunsmith sits on the Regional Occupation List only, so 494 regional sponsorship is this code's sole visa reach — the same narrow door as Engraver, Saw Doctor and Watch and Clock Maker and Repairer. On top of that visa ceiling sits a genuine, serious state firearms-licensing regime that a positive TRA outcome plays no part in satisfying, which this dossier could confirm the shape of in only two states and did not research in full depth.

Going through Trades Recognition Australia? TRA pathways lean heavily on documented work history and evidence of on-the-job experience. The Employment History Builder reconstructs it with gap detection, so the record you submit holds together.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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