The Closing Days of WA Government's Firearm Reform Debate
Its clear. Its drawing to a close. Firearm Reforms are coming but what's coming & why is little less clear. Regulations that underpin what police officers actually enforce is very unclear. There are not even suggestions what the regulations will involve. Be aware a law is an Act of Parliament. A regulation is an Act of Administration. A law must pass through the Parliament to be changed, a regulation only needs a minister pen. That means it could be good or it could be very bad. What else that's bad is consultation appears to be be token & selective. Going by yesterday's sitting of the Legislative Committee the reasons for the changes are looking decidedly fluid & also shaky. Its bad enough that the statistics for each of many hundreds of clauses are not available it's almost looking like they weren't used if they do exist. The reply that police resources would need to be reallocated to find the supporting data is a red flag suggesting a terribly serious...