{"id":2016,"date":"2015-08-17T01:26:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T01:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2015\/08\/17\/industry-reference-group-to-advise-on-firearm-reforms\/"},"modified":"2015-08-17T01:26:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T01:26:13","slug":"industry-reference-group-to-advise-on-firearm-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/industry-reference-group-to-advise-on-firearm-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"INDUSTRY REFERENCE GROUP TO ADVISE ON FIREARM REFORMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>August 17, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Federal Gippsland MP Darren Chester has welcomed a decision that will give firearm users a seat at the table in a review of the National Firearms Agreement (NFA).<\/p>\n<p>The Coalition Government has announced that a new Industry Reference Group will provide advice on behalf of licensed firearm users to the Firearms and Weapons Policy Working Group.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Justice Michael Keenan said consultation with industry and licensed shooters would be vital to produce sensible reforms as the Government reviews the technical elements of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI welcome the announcement, as I had written to the Prime Minister on behalf of local firearm owners and local retailers on this issue,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe law-abiding gun owners should be able to have a say in the NFA review and play a role in the decision making process, through the new Industry Reference Group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn particular I congratulate Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie, who played an important role in achieving this outcome, working together with the Minister for Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In January, the Martin Place Siege Review recommended that the Commonwealth, States and Territories simplify the regulation of the legal firearms market through an update of the technical elements of the NFA.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>August 17, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Federal Gippsland MP Darren Chester has welcomed a decision that will give firearm users a seat at the table in a review of the National Firearms Agreement (NFA).<\/p>\n<p>The Coalition Government has announced that a new Industry Reference Group will provide advice on behalf of licensed firearm users to the Firearms and Weapons Policy Working Group.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Justice Michael Keenan said consultation with industry and licensed shooters would be vital to produce sensible reforms as the Government reviews the technical elements of the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[154,320,321,319],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}