{"id":256728,"date":"2020-04-15T15:07:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T05:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=256728"},"modified":"2020-07-31T10:40:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T00:40:29","slug":"farmers-claim-firearms-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/04\/15\/farmers-claim-firearms-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Claim Firearms Win"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Member for Gympie and Shadow Agriculture Minister Tony Perrett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

April 15, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Farmers excluded from gunshops under COVID-19 restrictions are claiming a victory after more changes have been made to a Queensland Health directive.<\/p>\n

Initially, all licensed armourers and licensed dealers were declared a non-essential business on March 27, effectively closing them down.<\/p>\n

After protests from the farming community and the LNP, this was relaxed on March 31 to allow primary producers, pest controllers, vets, wildlife rangers, licensed kangaroo shooters and shark control contractors to buy weapons and ammunition.<\/p>\n

However, the direction said primary producers must be\u00a0able to produce a Queensland firearms licence bearing one or more of the following condition codes: PPA, PP2, PP3, PP4, PP5, PP6 or PPH.<\/p>\n

Shadow Minister for Agriculture Tony Perrett said this directive still barred about half of Queensland’s farmers from buying firearms and ammunition.<\/p>\n

These farmers held\u00a0OC1, OC2, OC3, OC4 and OC5 category licences.<\/p>\n

Mr Perrett said a campaign by farmers and the LNP to reverse this had now been successful.<\/p>\n

On April 9, the directive was amended to also allow occupational\u00a0shooters to purchase firearms and ammunition if they could produce:<\/strong><\/p>\n