Gone but not forgotten!
I thought I’d give you a quick update on what’s been happening, as you may not have heard from us over the past couple of weeks.
Apart from the usual end-of-year distractions, we have been busy:
- Preparing our response to the current review of firearms regulations here in Victoria;
- Organising a meeting of our political committee (which will be mapping out our plan for this year’s Victorian State Election ) for later this month; and
- Organising a meeting of a committee looking at the Category B PTA issue – for next week
The first item – being our response to the firearm regulation review – has taken up the most time.
The good news is that we got off to a quick start and the first draft of our submission is now going through an internal review. We hope to share this with you in a bit over a week’s time.
In the meantime, don’t forget to check out the Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) at https://engage.vic.gov.au/firearmsregulations (click the link to go there) and work up a submission if you haven’t already done so.
The RIS is a document which explains what changes the government is proposing to make to our firearm regulations which support the Firearms Act. They set out fees – some of which are:
- going up (permits to acquire);
- others down (pensioner discounts are proposed); and
- others not changing (junior licence fees frozen)
– as well as other detail such as the list of ‘exempt’ devices from the definition of a firearm, membership of the Firearms Appeals Committee and so on.
Submissions are due by January 25th, so don’t forget to check the RIS out if you haven’t done so.
COMING UP: over the next few weeks will be more on the RIS process, updates on the Firearms Amendment Bill currently in Parliament, news about the future of the CFCV – and some early news on the election.