Firearms control
Jeff BOURMAN (Eastern Victoria) (09:58): My statement today is to express my utter disdain for those that were calling for increased gun control, including the darling of a lot of shooters from the federal Nationals, before even the first funeral for the murdered police officers was held. Details on the murders are understandably scarce, but the offender apparently used an unregistered homemade firearm, which would not be captured by any firearm registry let alone an expansive national register. It is times like these that show the real colours of people – people who purport to be the friends of shooters, the federal Nationals being an example – when they cannot even wait a decent amount of time after an incident to push their real agenda. Remember who gave us the 1996 National Firearms Agreement as well as the 2019 revision – the federal Nationals and Liberals and federal Labor. Now it is an appropriate time to start commenting on the incident. The actions of these people were gross but very illuminating.