Gun Control Australia

Guns Are For Killing. And We Don’t Teach Killing At This School

The Steve Bracks/John Brumby government's determination to off-load responsibility for proper training of gun licence applicants during the period 2006 to 2008 is a black mark on a government that in other ways faced difficult decisions with determination. Whether it was pro-shooter bias, carelessness or child-like incompetence by the Bracks/Brumby government is not the focus of this criticism. We hope that investigative journalists will study that deplorable episode in Victoria’s political h...

Will the ALP Recover From its Shoddy Gun Safety Record?

  When in 2006 the then Premier of Victoria, Steve Bracks, decided to attract votes from gun devotees he told them that the National Party had let them down and that Labor would give them what they want. It was in our opinion one of the most unprincipled deals made in the history of Victorian politics.  His actions gave them too-strong a voice in environmental matters, but crucially, it gave them rights to develop a course for Shooters Licence applicants. Passing this course allows yo...

The ALP Betrayal: How long will Victorian hunters go on killing someone every three years?

Victorians continue to pay a high price for the irresponsible deal ex ALP Premier Steve Bracks did with the gun lobby in 2006. In 2006 Premier Steve Bracks set out to woo the shooter vote. He did many things to impress them. Some of the consequences have been a curse to public safety in Victoria. By 2008 John Brumby had become Premier and he signed-off on a crucial aspect of the 2006 deal – the Formation of the Firearm Safety Foundation (FSF). To Gun Control Australia the FSF is a poor ...

Shooter Group Deceptions Further Disgrace Gillard Government

Because it only represents shooters and the gun trade, the formation late last year of the Commonwealth Firearms Advisory Council (CFAC) was the ALP’s blatant attempt to buy the gun vote. The disgracefully biased composition of this panel reminds us how Julia Gillard has lost touch with the bulk of the Australian people; most of whom still remember the mass gun murders and the tragic price that over 70 murdered Australians paid before responsible gun laws were initiated. To further disgrac...

Australia’s Gun Laws Save Thousands of Lives – Shooter Groups Scared to Tell the Truth

With thousands of lives saved by reduced rates of gun homicide and gun suicide, we know how wonderfully successful the gun laws introduced after the six gun massacres in 1987 and the two gun massacres of 1996 have been. We refer to the combination of these stricter gun laws as the National Firearms Agreement (NFA). It is a tragedy for the Australian public that several shooter groups try to conceal the truth about the success of our improved gun laws. Such deceptions discredit our governments...