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Firearms & Hunting

Current laws are too complex and costly for legitimate owners, while penalties for criminals who use firearms remain too weak. We will make the system fairer for law-abiding owners and much tougher on those who misuse firearms.

Firearms and Hunting

What we will do:

  • Streamline the licensing system and move to longer licence periods to reduce unnecessary cost and bureaucracy for responsible owners.
  • Allow practical, secure storage options at approved clubs and ranges.
  • Remove unnecessary rules that serve no public safety purpose, including excessive restrictions on genuine antique and historical firearms.
  • Introduce a genuine firearms amnesty and examine a voluntary buy-back at fair market value to remove unwanted and unregistered firearms from the community.
  • Review the firearms categories and genuine-reason requirements with proper input from farmers and shooting organisations, while maintaining strong public safety standards.
  • Increase penalties where a firearm is brandished or used in the commission of a crime.
  • Support stronger border controls and tougher penalties for illegal firearms trafficking.
  • Push for a fairer and more consistent national approach to firearms regulation.
  • Protect duck hunting with current bag limits.
  • Support deer hunting for both recreational and pest control management.
  • Support the Hunters for the Hungry food relief scheme.
  • Support the most humane practices for pest control and feral population management and eradication.

Law-abiding shooters, hunters and farmers are not the problem. Criminals who use firearms are. One Nation will treat them accordingly.

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