SFF MEDIA RELEASE: AMENDMENTS TO FIREARMS (COMMUNITY SAFETY BILL 2023)
While we all share the common goal of enhancing community safety, I firmly believe that the Bill, as currently drafted, constitutes an unjustified attack on law-abiding firearm ownership. It appears to be driven more by political concerns than by evidence-based policy making. Rather than targeting responsible firearm owners, I believe that our efforts should be focused on increasing penalties for firearm theft, being in possession of stolen firearms, and the like. The introduction of tougher sentencing for such crimes would undoubtedly be a step in the right direction rather than demonizing licensed firearm holders as this Bill does in its current state.
Post election washup
The votes we received at the State election is extremely encouraging. A few more and we would have had a member in parliament.
