Archive for August, 2010

Is the Liberal Party Committed to Strong Gun Laws?

  Following the revelations that the Liberal Party website had advertised the possibility of: (a)    Dismantling our gun laws by removing the national compulsory gun registration scheme and the ban on semi automatic rifles and shotguns, and, (b)   Permitting people to carry concealed, loaded semi automatic pistols. GCA wrote to Liberal Party shadow ministers Tony Abbott (Leader), George Brandis (Attorney General) and Jason Wood (Justice and Public Security) asking them to assure us t...

Tony Abbott, the Liberal Party, and Gun Fanatics

  The Liberal Party's website has come up with one of the most horrific and dangerous ideas of the last 100 years - to allow hundreds of thousands of Australians to carry concealed loaded pistols and revolvers.   We condemn Tony Abbott, his Attorney-General George Brandis, and the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Justice and Public Security, Mr Jason Wood MP.   If ever a subservient attitude to the gun fanatics in our society has been envisaged, it is the Liberal Party's sickening and sha...