Jennifer and Gretl Petelczyc was shot dead in their own home on Friday by Mark James Bombara, a licensed firearm owner.Premier Roger Cook says the government will consider further strengthening those proposed laws in the wake of this incident.
"We need to understand that Bombara's wife was supported as part of that breakdown of that relationship, we want to continue to understand what extra steps they could have taken if we had different firearm laws in place," he told ABC Radio Perth."And that's obviously, as a government, one of my key objectives, is to understand what more can we do to equip the police to be able to support people in these situations.
"I've asked the police minister to look at what other small amendments we could make that would make it even tougher," Mr Cook said. "They should be given the powers that they need to be able to intervene, and make sure that they can arrest the situation and make sure that they can take those guns out of harm's way.