“WHY DO YOU NEED MORE THAN 10 ROUNDS?”: The question that should not have been asked

IN THIS EPISODE, we dive into the shocking thought-bubble emerging from Victoria's Firearms Legislation Review—a limit of just 10 rounds per shooter. It was a simple query, but one which points to a much, much deeper problem affecting every licensed shooter. Australian shooters are facing an unprecedented wave of new restrictions across multiple states, from gun limits in NSW to Western Australia's draconian safe storage requirements.  With elections looming in South Australia (March 21) and Victoria (November 28), both Labor governments are treading carefully, but the future of what they will do beyond those elections remains uncertain. Former Police Commissioner Ken Lay is leading Victoria's firearms review, but serious concerns have emerged about the expertise that the review team has. During the consultation, the team asked if there should be a limit of ten rounds per shooter.  We appreciate that consultation is necessary to fill knowledge gaps, that should only ever be necessary for dealing with minor areas of detail. Instead, this was a question of major importance that was not helpful to have asked. It points to the more fundamental problem facing firearms policy management in Australia.  That is because firearms policy advice is often developed by people who do not have the necessary subject matter expertise and industry only gets involved after the initial line of questioning has been developed. We raise this problem in the hope that those responsible for the review get to see why this is the case and instead recommend a significant improvement to the way firearms policy is developed that is based on industry advice – rather than from within government - because it does not address the key problems we face. In other words, we need an entirely new engagement model. NO GOVERNMENT would take that approach for medicine, aviation, road management, bridge design, or other important areas of public policy - so why is it different for firearms? This is why shooters get wound up every time they hear government come up with new policy ideas that do not involve the shooting sector. Finally, can you please help us?  We need to be able to send this content to more and more shooters – so make sure you’re on our email list & get your mates to do the same as well!  It’s free, easy to opt out and would be a huge help if you can do that.  To sign up, just go to https://politicsreloaded.com/email-list/  -------------------------------------------------------------- GET EARLY RELEASE EPISODES! Join our Patreon channel and get our episodes before they are released more widely at:  https://www.patreon.com/c/PoliticsReloaded/membership -------------------------------------------------------------- DONATE NOW – and support our work You can back our work by donating at https://politicsreloaded.com/donate/ OR you can ‘buy me a coffee’ in support, at https://buymeacoffee.com/politicsreloaded #AustralianShooters #VictoriaFirearmsReview #LicensedShooters #ShootingRightsAU #GunLawReform #FirearmsPolicy #10RoundLimit #IndustryConsultation #ResponsibleGunOwnership #ShootingSportsAustralia