Brian Ross wrote on Aug 17
th, 2018 at 3:03pm:
From your link which includes a pic of a semi auto Cat D rifle which had nothing to do with these proposed changes, must have been included to add fear or show how ignorant the ABC are with our gun laws.
Quote:An election promise to change Tasmania's gun laws has been abandoned,
The changes would have allowed some licence holders access to silencers and extend gun licence duration.
The controversial gun law policy was circulated to interest groups, including farmers during the election campaign, but only came to public light on the day before the state election.
The Liberals had said the policy to relax firearms laws was aimed at sporting shooters and helping farmers do their jobs by allowing greater access to "tools of the trade" category C firearms, such as self-loading rifles and pump-action shotguns, and would have doubled some licences from five to 10 years.
The National Firearms Agreement (NFA) specifies that licence duration should not exceed five years.
Other promises outlined in February 2018 correspondence by then-police minister Rene Hidding to "key stakeholder groups", but not the wider public, included "an end to inappropriate delays and waiting times", a move to "establish a digital platform where every firearm owner in Tasmania can manage their own licence and registration."
However, Sporting Shooters Association of Australia Tasmanian president Andrew Judd said he was disappointed the Government had abandoned the reforms, which he said were negotiated "over a long period of time" with Mr Hidding, police and stakeholders.
In July, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) released a statement saying it had been "22 years since the Port Arthur massacre, if our gun control laws loosen, we will not just go back 22 years but the lives lost will tragically have been in vain".The proposed changes by the Tasmanian Government "contravene the spirit of the National Firearms agreement and legislation which is there to limit access to dangerous weapons in the community", RACS said.
It's clear the government lied to Tasmanian voters about allowing them to have what is in the 1996 firearms act before an election then backflipped after they won the election,another broken election promise that shooters will remember at the next election when they vote Shooters Fishers and Farmers party.
The proposed changes were on Liberal Party and police minister Rene Hiddings liberal party website for months before the election so the ABC have lied claiming they only came to light the day before the election, the ABC only discovered it just before the election then lied in claiming it wasn't public when anyone could access this Liberal party website containing the changes.
The 1996 Firearms act allows farmers who are classified as Primary Producers by tax dept to have semi auto category C firearms and pump action shotguns so how is it watering down laws to let Primary producers have what the 1996 Firearms act allows?
Mr Turnbull our PM has a Primary Production farm and a Category C firearm that he cannot take from his farm, I would feel better if Malcolm was allowed to keep this firearm at his Point Piper mansion which has Federal police running security instead of him being required to leave it on his farm which he would rarely visit.
The only sporting shooters who can have Category C firearms are clay target shooters which is an Olympic sport Aussies have won numerous medals in, women competing in this prefer semi auto shotguns because they have less recoil the 1996 firearms act allows them to have these firearms.
As for license duration not exceeding 5 years with 1996 firearm act will extending it really make any difference apart from reducing workload with firearms registry? A license can be revoked for an interim AVO or a good behaviour bond with no conviction recorded so like car licenses expiry date makes no difference when license can easily be revoked.
As for silencers perhaps farmers should sue the government for any hearing damage caused by firearms , this is an occupational health and safety issue for them, most farmers also have working dogs no hearing protection is available for animals.
New Zealand allows people to buy silencers without a license no evidence of misuse by criminals there it's considerd rude to shoot without a silencer in NZ.
England has tough gun laws they allow hunters to have semi auto rimfire rifles and shotguns which we call Cat C, they have a 10% lower homicide rate compared to us, New Zealand also allows these firearms they have a 10% lower homicide rate compared to us. Why are the bedwetters scared of Cat C firearms when the UK and NZ allow them and both have lower homicide rates compared to us?
As for the RACS what do they mean by contravene the spirit of the 1996 firearms act, is that a bullshit way of saying these changes don't contravene the act they don't like them?
They made Paintball legal in Tasmania a few years ago after it was banned in 1996 that really upset the bedwetters.
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