The NSW lower house will reconvene today to approve the final version of the terrorism and other offences amendment bill, which tightens up gun laws and allows police to restrict protests for up to three months after a terrorist incident.
The Greens successfully moved an amendment overnight in the upper house which goes directly to what we know about the alleged gunmen, namely that one had been on an Asio watch list and lived with his father at a house in Bonnyrigg.
The amendment says the police commissioner must be satisfied before he grants a gun licence that the applicant “has never been investigated by a Commonwealth or state law enforcement or intelligence agency for terrorism-related offences or for association with members of a proscribed terrorist organisation”.
The commissioner must also be satisfied an applicant “is not an associate or does not reside at the same residential dwelling as someone who has been investigated by a Commonwealth or state law enforcement or intelligence agency for terrorism-related offences, or for associating with members of a prescribed terrorist organisation”.
Source: Expensive-Horse5538
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Seems to me like a very logical and necessary Amendment surely if you have been investigated for terrorism and they have found enough evidence of such that the possibility exists that should immediately disqualify you from owning guns and if you live with someone suspected of such the same should apply
Only trouble is that the government, being in the pocket of fossil fuel companies and the apartheid lobby, is that opposition to those things means you are probably regarded as a criminal.
One has to wonder why on earth those provisions were not in the original bill…
Amazing that this wasn’t actually included in the original legislation and needed to be added. Good pick up by the Greens on this occasion.
The wording sounds interesting.
>”The amendment says the police commissioner must be satisfied before he grants a gun licence that the applicant “has never been investigated by a Commonwealth or state law enforcement or intelligence agency for terrorism-related offences or for association with members of a proscribed terrorist organisation”.”
So, does this mean that someone who’s been investigated but exonerated could never have a firearm’s licence?
>”The commissioner must also be satisfied an applicant “is not an associate or does not reside at the same residential dwelling as someone who has been investigated by a Commonwealth or state law enforcement or intelligence agency for terrorism-related offences, or for associating with members of a prescribed terrorist organisation”.”
Again, what happens if the investigation exonerates them?