SHOOTERS Union Australia vice president David Brown headed to Canberra a few weeks ago to attend the re-launch of the Parliamentary Friends of Shooting group. The event, supported by our friends at SIFA, was also attended by the Australian Clay Target Association, Field and Game Australia, the SSAA, and, of course, Shooters Union Australia. The Parliamentary Friends of Shooting group ...

Acting Commissioner of Police Michael Murphy Northern Territory Police Via E-mail November 11, 2019 Dear Mr Murphy, I am writing to you as president of Shooters Union Australia on behalf of our members to seek clarification of a declaration you made on October 3, 2019 and Gazetted on November 6. In your Declaration, you declare that “declare all linear repeating ...

An update for our members and friends in NSW: We are advised that as part of a programme to centralise the NSW Police’s incoming mail, anything being posted to the Firearms Registry will now go via the police Document Transmission Centre in Parramatta. Effective now, the state firearms registry has updated its mailing address to: Firearms Registry Locked Bag 5102 ...

The 2019 ‘Economic and Social Impacts of Recreational Hunting and Shooting’ Federal Government Report has been released. Check the facts, facts matter.

PLANS by the Federal Government to ban cash purchases of more than $10,000 are potentially the start of a slippery slope towards restricting law-abiding shooter’s ability to buy firearms, ammunition and accessories. The Government quietly tabled the Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019 recently, which would make it a criminal offence to buy (or accept payment) in ...

It’s not often we find the ABC on the side of law-abiding firearms users, but today is one of those days. Following the release of the Economic and Social Impacts of Recreational Hunting and Shooting report (commissioned by the Commonwealth Government Department of Health) Australia’s national media outlets took very different tacks on the report’s contents and conclusions – which ...

You might recall a few weeks ago we wrote to Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton, expressing our high levels of concern over Australian Border Force reclassifying the Berkia ‘Black Ops’ shotgun due to an alleged resemblance to the M-16 assault rifle. We can now report the Hon. Jason Wood MP, Assistant Minister for Customs, Community Safety and Multicultural Affairs – ...

Great news for anyone who hunts in NSW – we are officially advised by the state’s Department of Primary Industries that from Friday, September 6, a game licence is no longer required for hunting wild deer on private property, as part of efforts to help landowners struggling with drought and over-abundant feral deer numbers. According to the info we have ...

WE at Shooters Union HQ have always prided ourselves on proactively representing and lobbying for the interests of our members and law-abiding firearms users across Australia. That work takes a lot of forms – everything from media liaison to social media engagement to lobbying MPs – and while a lot of what we do has to stay on the QT ...

ANOTHER day, another media outlet writing fear-mongering stories about sporting firearms. This time, the offender is none other than the Daily Mail, who have taken aim at the Verney-Carron Speedline rifle. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7370191/How-deadly-rifle-fire-six-shots-three- seconds-exploiting-Australias-tough-gun-laws.html There’s some real howlers in the story – “Military-style ammunition,” describing the gun as “Semi-Semi-Automatic”, and extensive comment from GCA & Friends – but it also utterly ...