Our LRD survey – and your savage responses

In 2015, the CFCV ran a survey of over 800 shooters which revealed how strongly we feel about the the performance of the Licensing and Regulation Division of VicPol.

We knew you’d be pretty unhappy with them – especially with their meddling during the lever-action shotgun fight – but what we didn’t expect was just how deep those feelings run!

Delay

The reason for the delay in releasing this survey had a lot to do with other sensitivities at the time. With a range of other issues concerning the conduct of Victoria Police now coming to the surface, we think now is a good time to release the results.

You will note that we have since had a change in the Minister responsible for the police portfolio, but there’s no reason to suspect that your sentiments towards our regulator has changed over the last couple of years.

Survey questions

The survey asked three questions about the registry and four questions about the performance of the (now previous) Minister.

The first six questions provide an interesting insight into what Victorian shooters are concerned about.

It was the response to the last question which was the most revealing

Here are the results from over 800 shooters who participated in the survey:

Question 1: How would you rate the performance of the Licensing Regulation Division? (Please be fair!)

Question 2: In our recent survey, Victorian shooters said we should scrap our firearms registry. Why?

Question 3: If scrapping Victoria’s registry isn’t likely to happen anytime soon, what could we do to improve its performance?

Question 4: Who is Victoria’s Minister for Police – with portfolio responsibility for firearm regulation?

Question 5: How would you rate the performance of the Victorian Minister for Police?

Question 6: Who was the previous Victorian Minister for Police?

Question 7: The role of Victoria Police is to implement the law, not comment on whether it is good or bad.  That’s for the Minister to do.

Shooters were asked to respond to three questions in this part:

The choices were:

On all three questions, more than two thirds of shooters responded with the last choice – that is, the matter was “so bad, the Premier should sort it out”.

Conclusions

There was nothing in the responses which could be seen as a positive for the government.

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