#nationalfirearmsregistry — Public Fediverse posts

@dalereardon
There is not agreed way forward at the National level. It’s not so much about gun control policies as partisan politics and how many votes are in it.

Tinkering the edges is not going to increase the funding and personnel that Firearms Registries required to tighten up enforcement of current rules and regs, let alone any new processes that might be implemented. It’s still up in the air.

Furthermore, the one thing that Port Arthur teaches us is to implement a National Firearms Register, and that is still to be done. Likely never will… so much for govt(s) and #Police concerns for public safety.

#GunControl #AusPol #NationalFirearmsregistry

It seems to me that the public discussion on #firearm control would better be served if govts released the documents or transcripts of meetings and the information they have gathered to help them come to their decisions — there’s something going on, otherwise all States would come out with the same data that would inform pretty uniform decisions nationally. Instead we, yet again, have different #gunlaws in different jurisdictions. Oh…and guess what, the #NationalFirearmsRegistry Howard legislated for, well we’re still waiting for that and likely to wait a long while yet, if we ever get one.

So, either govts did not consult widely nor gathered the facts and acted on politcal gut feel, or there’s power (aka money) behind the decisions and nothing to do with keeping guns out of the hands of #Crims and #NutCases.
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For the sake of full disclosure, I am an active member of a gun club.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-15/tas-chief-of-police-on-firearms-ownership-limits/106456894