Associate Professor Philip Alpers from the University of Sydney School of Public Health, and founding director of GunPolicy.org, told Fact Check:"Christian Porter seemed to be suggesting that his Government has been a staunch supporter of gun control laws."In reality, the Commonwealth can do little more than raise penalties for federal crimes like arms trafficking, or ban a few weapon imports under Customs regulations.
Samantha Lee, lawyer and president of Gun Control Australia, agreed that state and territory gun laws are"incrementally being watered down". For example, as the"monitor and controller of the importation of firearms", the federal government could"undertake a national audit of state and territory gun laws to assess compliance with the 1996 Port Arthur Agreement", and ban the importation of semi-automatic handguns, she said.
"The last major change was in 2017, when all jurisdictions agreed to ban lever-action shotguns with a magazine capacity of more than five rounds of ammunition. This is hardly 'watering down'.
So Labor opposed them because they thought the Liberals were being too lenient. When you want to appear tough on guns, that's a pretty gross distortion of the truth.
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