Some time ago we received an email from a shooter of Chinese origin who as trying to help his friend get a firearms licence.
The problem? His friend is on a student visa, and is not a “permanent resident”.
Yet the Firearms Act only requires someone who applies for a licence to be “a person”: it says nothing about the applicant having permanent residency. Read more »
The CFCV has had a win on the NFA front – of sorts.
You will recall we led an industry submission to the Federal Justice Minister, Michael Keenan, earlier this year pointing out changes made to the NFA which had not been previously announced and were clearly detrimental to the interests of the shooting sports.
Some of these changes included the imposition of ammo purchase limits, longer waiting periods for subsequent PTAs and potentially banning juniors from getting involved in the shooting sports. Click here if you’d like to see our previous blog on this.
Most of those changes now look like they are dead in the water – at least for the time being. Read more »
The CFCV is the political arm of 6 of Victoria’s major shooting organisations.
It fights hard to help stop the sorts of attacks on shooters you’ve seen escalate over the past couple of years. We do this by backing pro-shooting candidates at state and federal elections, in the same way the NRA does in the US.
This is where you come into the plan. Read more »
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