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Member for Gympie Tony Perrett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

December 14, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

The State Government is making “emotional decisions” about weapons in Queensland when it doesn\u2019t even know how many licence holders there are, says Member for Gympie Tony Perrett.<\/p>\n

Mr Perrett said the State Government body in control of weapons licensing did not know how many weapons licence holders existed in Queensland and in each regional area.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked the government for a breakdown of the figures and have been told they don\u2019t even know,\u201d Mr Perrett said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a Question On Notice I asked the Minister for Police Mark Ryan how many weapons licence holders there are by category in the Gympie Electorate and in Queensland (broken down by postcode)?<\/p>\n

\u201cAstonishingly, the Minister could not answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said that the body in charge of all our weapons licensing, the Queensland Police Service Weapons Licensing, had advised that the numbers were imprecise as multiple categories may be registered to one licence and multiple licences may be registered to one person.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn other words they have absolutely no idea of how many weapons holders are in each region in Queensland.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsidering the amount of administration and hoops that licence holders have to jump through, it is an appalling admission.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI receive more complaints about weapons licences than any other single issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI naturally expected that a licence holder could have a number of weapons in different categories.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the government expects us to believe it has absolutely no way of knowing how many weapons licence holders there are out there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt stretches credulity.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou would think that in the age of computers and cross referencing the government could produce those numbers. This is not rocket science.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis news means that the government is making decisions about reclassification of weapons and weapons licences when it doesn\u2019t have any adequate knowledge and data on the use of weapons in Queensland.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is obviously jumping to conclusions based on innuendo and speculation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI would back data and facts against that any day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision to categorise the Adler lever action shotgun means that it is being based on other reasons than hard facts.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a weapons licence holder, gun owner and primary producer I support practical, evidence-based gun classification.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve seen no evidence by any authority which supports the reclassification of the Adler.<\/p>\n

\u201cI support the rights of law-abiding gun owners and not those who use emotional grandstanding to demonise guns and their users.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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