THE BONDI ROYAL COMMISSION’S interim report recommends the National Firearms Agreement be ‘updated’, but we're calling for that idea to be dropped.

In this episode of #GunNewsAustralia, we break down our submission to the Commission explaining why updating the NFA without examining its current flaws would be a step backwards.

We expose how Western Australia doesn't even comply with the existing NFA. There are no permits to acquire (instead a clumsy and expensive system of licensing not just the user, but each firearm), and no interstate mutual recognition of licenses. Yet it wants to spread its restrictive laws nationwide!

Our submission highlights critical issues: arbitrary appearance laws that ban firearms based on looks rather than function; junior license restrictions that harm international shooting sports development; and the clause allowing states to treat the NFA as "minimum standards" – such as the latest push to bring in caps on the number of firearms owned.

We're demanding five key reforms. They are a full NFA review with shooting community input, scrapping appearance laws, fixing junior license age restrictions (lowering to 11 for use, not ownership), requiring all states to actually comply with the agreement, and removing the ‘minimum standard’ loophole that turns this into a "National Firearms Disagreement."

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