This from the ongoing Tasmanian Firearm Inquiry: “A group of medical professionals has argued a relaxation of Tasmanian gun laws will result in weakening government action plans on family violence and suicide. Medics for Gun Control on Monday appeared at the lower house’s inquiry into the government’s planned
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Category C and D firearms should be opened up for sports shooters
The ongoing saga in Tasmania has taken another twist with another appeal coming for Cat C firearms to be rightfully opened up for sports shooting: “Tasmanian sporting shooters say they are confident the State Government will deliver its election promise to consider allowing them to use
Tasmania: “Medics for Gun Control” need to butt out and clean up their own backyard
Here we go again. With the Tasmania Firearm Inquiry about to get underway, doctors have continued to play the public health fear card: “Shooters Union Tasmania has labelled comments from a coalition of health professionals against the state’s proposed gun reforms “ill-informed emotionally charged hearsay.” Medics for
Ex-Tasmanian MLC Tony Mulder supports gun law changes
Former Tasmanian MLC Tony Mulder has come out in support of the proposed changes to the firearms act by Will Hodgman in the Advocate: “Mr Mulder said he supported the National Firearms Agreement but there needed to be changes to Tasmanian gun laws so that farmers
Shambolic Shorten wants Turnbull to illegally enforce non-binding National Firearms Agreement on Tasmania
In a cynical move designed deliberately to tie in with the #MarchForOurLives hysteria, Bill Shorten has written to Malcolm Turnbull over the Will Hodgman government’s proposals in Tasmania. This from the ALPBC: “Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has called on the Prime Minister to review proposed changes
Anti-firearm soft lobbying over Tasmanian Liberals’ proposals begins
As expected, the media machine has already started soft lobbying to try and pressure the Tasmanian Liberals to cave in over their sensible changes to the Firearms Act. Apart from the liars over at the Guardian still trying to claim the changes were released on the
“Feel good” amnesty stories and WA Police break their own firearm safety rules
The Australian Government has kept up it’s propaganda drive for the national firearms amnesty, flooding the mainstream media with a wave of “feel good” amnesty stories to validate Justice Minister Michael Keenan’s vanity project. Tasmania Police claimed that 154 firearms had been handed in across the
Tasmania Police firearm safety record under the microscope
Freedom of Information documents obtained by FOU, courtesy of Firearms Laws Australia, has shown the number of negligent or unintentional discharges of firearms by Tasmania Police officers while on duty for the past five years. Since 2012 there have been 18 negligent or unintentional discharges by
New wave of anti-firearm propaganda to sell National Firearms ‘Agreement’ while Australian Police arm up
Another wave of anti-firearm propaganda has been unleashed onto the Australian public in an attempt to sell the new National Firearms “Agreement”. It began a couple of weeks ago with this paid for hit piece from The Guardian’s Paul Farrell, with Gun Control Australia attempting to
Tasmania Police storage proposals and Gun Control Australia’s lies – a licence holder’s persepctive
One of our fans has provided us with a look at their submission to Tasmania Police’s storage proposals: I write to express my objection to the new firearms storage proposals being put forward by Tasmania Police. In particular, I would like to address the absurdity of