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Tasmanian Gun Law Reform at Risk
Gun Watch ^
| Sept 7, 2018
| Dean Weingarten
Posted on 09/07/2018 5:01:40 AM PDT by marktwain
Promised reforms to extreme firearm restrictions in the Australian state of Tasmania appear to have stalled.
In the March general election of 2018, the ruling Tasmanian government had promised some commonsense reforms to the extreme gun laws. The Liberal party in Australia is a center right party.
Here is a summation of reforms promised by the Liberal Tasmania government:
- Establish the Tasmanian Firearms Owners Council made up of firearms owners and other stakeholders.
- Improve the interaction between Firearms Services and firearms owners and higher service levels. Includes a digital platform where every Tasmanian firearms owner can manage their license and registration requirements, and a promise to end delays and waiting times for licensing and permits.
- Establishing a new Tasmanian competition shooting range to be available to all shooting clubs in Tasmania.
- Broader firearms training and testing provisions ending the monopoly on training and testing that now exists. There are only 3 firearms testers for all of Tasmania, creating severe delays.
- Extend periods of licenses doubling the term of A and B licenses to 10 years, and C licenses for two years.
- Infringement notices for minor storage offenses this allows for an infringement notice, rather like a traffic ticket, instead of summons to court as a crime.
- Finalize an MOU between the Government, Tasmania Police and the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association (TFGA).
The reforms included increased access, by shooters certified to control agricultural pests, to tightly controlled semi-automatic rifles and to silencers. Agricultural pests in Tasmania include feral pigs, exotic deer, European rabbits, and kangaroos. They do enormous damage to Tasmanian crops.
The limited network of government test examiners would be expanded private enterprise to reduce the extensive backlog of license applications.
These reforms were brought up in the March election. The anti-gun left railed against the reforms with raw emotion, saying they were a slap in the face of Port Arthur massacre survivors.
The Liberals (pro-reform) won the election, holding on to an absolute majority. The Liberals had promised, repeatedly, they would pass the reforms. In August of 2018, they seem to be backing away from that promise.
From abc.net.au:
The State Government's proposed changes to gun laws were revealed by the media on the eve of the March state election and sparked condemnation from those who survived the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre.
After months of defending the policy, on Friday Premier Will Hodgman and Police Minister Michael Ferguson announced the Government was dropping the policy.
"We will not pursue the policy proposals that we have previously put forward," Mr Hodgman said.
In response to the announcement, the Legislative Council inquiry set up to investigate into firearms law reform, which had received 121 submissions, was cancelled.
But on Wednesday afternoon Police Minister Michael Ferguson announced the inquiry would instead be moved to the House of Assembly.
"As we said last week, we will not be progressing the previously announced firearms law proposals until consideration of any recommendations from a parliamentary inquiry," he said.
Mr Hodgman's decision was welcomed by the Tasmanian Farmers and Grazers Association (TFGA), who were surprised by the policy backdown.
It does not look good for the reforms. In Australia, as in the United States, the dominant media is rabidly anti-gun. The media were the major force that pushed the extreme gun laws through in 1996. Australia does not have an equivalent to the Fox News Channel, a Rush Limbaugh or a Sean Hannity.
The Englishman's right to arms was viable in 1901, when the Australian Constitution was adopted, but it was not explicitly mentioned. Australia does not have a Second Amendment. British law has written the Englishman's right to arms into a nullity from 1920 to 2018.
Australian's attempts to reform their extreme gun laws have had successes. But the slightest attempt at reform is met with opposition from the gun control lobby in academia and in the media. The Labor and Green parties are rabidly anti-gun.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: australia; banglist; gunlaw; tasmania
Politicians promised reforms.
The media attacked the politicians, the politicians backed down.
This shows who has the power, and it is not the government, it is the media.
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posted on
09/07/2018 5:01:40 AM PDT
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
There is SO much wrong with this whole piece. But, I don’t recall there being a 2nd amendment in place to protect the citizens down unduh. Guess the “devil” is in the detains when dealing with Tasmania huh?
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posted on
09/07/2018 5:07:52 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: marktwain
There are more guns in private hands now than at the time of the Port Arthur massacre, and that has the government all wee-wee'd up.
They're just all bolt action or lever action rifles and double barrel shotguns. No semi-auto or pump.
And now there are calls to ban lever actions.
Guess the Mossberg Tacticool lever action's days are numbered...
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posted on
09/07/2018 5:29:03 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: naturalman1975
Ping on article about Tasmania gun law reforms.
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posted on
09/07/2018 5:32:49 AM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: marktwain
Anglophone nations have been taken over by the globlist elites.
The media worldwide is monopolized by them.
Disgusting.
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posted on
09/07/2018 5:56:48 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(MAGA)
To: marktwain
Politicians promised reforms. The media attacked the politicians, the politicians backed down. This shows who has the power, and it is not the government, it is the media.There, just like here.
I have often taken to saying that the News Misleadia is not a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party, but instead it is the Democrats that are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the News Misleadia Party.
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posted on
09/07/2018 5:59:18 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
To: marktwain
RINO’S are everywhere. Spineless bastarfs.
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posted on
09/07/2018 6:02:05 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
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