Steve Dickson from Member for Buderim, and One Nation Party member, responds to Robbie Katter’s Private Members Motion in Queensland Parliament that aims to safeguard the rights of farmers to own Category H firearms.
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Bulletpoints Interview with Luke Brown
Bullet Points is your first source for firearms news and information in Australia. Luke catches up with our friends from LAFO Inc. Talking to the President Chris Howard about the shear incompetence of the Labor party in Queensland, and we discuss One Nation and many other things with the Vice President of the Shooters Union, David Brown.
Read More »Katters Australian Party wants to abolish gun registration
Bob Katter took part in a recent western shoot at the Mareeba SSAA range. He joked that this might be the best way to bring the banks into line. Bob says KAP is the only party in Queensland that wants to do away with firearms registration which has been a long-held policy. Bob spent some time shooting at the range with pistol, ...
Read More »Important: Check your gun storage complies…
Here’s a little trap for the unwary. A handgun licence holder has advised us he was recently broken into and his firearms, 13 rifles and 4 pistols, stolen. He was storing all of his firearms in a safe weighing 410 kg bare, not bolted down because he considered the weight of the safe to be sufficient in itself, according to ...
Read More »Shooters Union Video Update – 17 August 2017
An update from Shooters Union President, Graham Park regarding recent meetings with political parties such as One Nation, LNP and the Australian Conservatives.
Read More »Shooters Union Update – 4 August 2017
Watch the latest updates from Shooters Union regarding political lobbying activities, membership updates and more.
Read More »New Gun Laws leave successful Ipswich Club in Limbo
THE competitive future of an internationally successful Ipswich club is in limbo under the revised 2017 National Firearm Agreement (NFA). That is the view of Ipswich Pistol Club committee member and licence firearm instructor Scott Geelan, who is keen to receive further clarification on how the agreement will affect shooting clubs. “There are so many grey areas,” Geelan said. “There ...
Read More »Firearms agreement hits wrong target: shooters
[mwVimeo video_id=’225785556′ width=’620′ height=’349′] RECREATIONAL shooters have hit out at the State Government’s lack of consultation in adopting new provisions under the National Firearms Agreement. The Federal Government reviewed the NFA which was initially drawn up in 1996, making a number of changes which the Shooters Union of Queensland fear will increase regulation and restrict gun ownership. SUQ director Jan ...
Read More »Queensland sporting shooting clubs to close under National Firearms Agreement
Up to 80 per cent of Queensland’s sporting shooting clubs may be forced to close under the revised 2017 National Firearm Agreement (NFA) which requires people seeking firearm licences to belong to ‘approved clubs’, according to the Shooters Union Australia. Shooters Union Australia President Graham Park said the NFA, which the Labor Palaszczuk Government had signed up to, deemed ‘approved ...
Read More »How effective can a gun amnesty be?
Gun Amnesty in Full Swing — But Why? On July 1, the government introduced the National Firearms Amnesty — a three-month program that will give Australians the chance to hand in unregistered firearms without consequence or cost. Australia is a different country now, but it’s important to remember: Over 18 years starting in the late 1970s, there were 13 mass shootings. ...
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