Here is the article from which this Press Release was issued.
https://thepoint.com.au/explainers/260317-the-gaping-hole-in-australias-gun-laws-explained

Note that the only reliable data available to the author is from the NSW Firearms Registry and the article cherry picks from this resource to hammer home the point that gun laws in Autralia, generally, are too permissive. And I agree with that.

I do not know where the Australian Sports Commission get their data from, presumably from olympic discipline feeder parts of gun clubs, but I suggest that this data is limited and not representative of all club membership and their activities.

The author also relies on information from the QLD SSAA which in no longer a Branch of the National SSAA, a point glossed over by the author, and hence does not represent the rest of the country in terms of rifle shooters within the national SSAA’s ambit. QLD have long been unrepresentative of the rest of Australia in many ways, especially in terms of gun ownership which is seen as a right up there (I’m generalising here as well due to lack of data).

What seems to emerge from this article, is that the author commits the same errors our NSW govt committed, a lack of complete and open minded consultations with all affected parties before making up their minds as to what needs to be done. Had the author spoken with the National SSAA, the article would have a different tone and different conclusions, and gone some ways to strenghten Australia’s gun laws rathr than ‘thrashing’ them outright.

#GunLaws #AusPol