Australian Demands for Shooters Input Pay Off

By Ammoland

Australia – -(Ammoland.com)- It is by no means a complete victory, but your demands to Australian politicians that they listen to shooters concerns over the Adler / National Firearms Agreement issues have paid off.

Today the government announced the creation of an Industry Reference Group to advise it further on the Adler / categorisation issues.

Another group? Well, it’s our understanding that this group will include people from our side of the fence.

Why? Because the feds released their bureaucrats were pushing their own barrow, which would have led one of the Coalition partners into a long 1996 style fight they did not want.

Last Friday (7 August 2015), the Attorney General’s Department convened a consultation forum for shooting groups in Brisbane. This was held at short notice, and those going there knew this was more of an exercise of bureaucrats trying to cover the fact they had not consulted, by conducting a sham consultation process.

Read this brilliant letter from Beretta’s Luca Scribani Rossi. It’s a great description of how industry viewed what went on. It may well have …read more

Source:: AmmoLand