Victoria’s new firearms bill
The State Government has just tabled the Firearms Amendment Bill 2017 and the Explanatory Memorandum in the lower house.
Click here to see the bill and here to see the more useful Explanatory Memorandum.
There isn’t much we’re going to say on it until we’ve had a chance to go through it more thoroughly. While there is a focus on criminal access to firearms, there are a number of provisions we will definitely have a close look at such how the Chief Commissioner can use ‘behaviour’ as a reason to prohibit a person from being able to access firearms, the changing definition of firearm trafficking and the changes to appeal rights.
We’ll have more to say once we’ve gone through it more carefully