The Victorian Greens say the Allan Government has capitulated to the gun lobby after rejecting a key recommendation from former Police Commissioner Ken Lay to cap the number of firearms a person can own, following the Bondi massacre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite accepting 15 of the 16 recommendations from the firearms review commissioned after the Bondi tragedy, Labor refused to support limits on the number of guns a single licence holder can possess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The review found some recreational hunters own up to 68 firearms, while some sports shooters own as many as 288.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leader of the Victorian Greens Ellen Sandell said Jacinta Allan\u2019s Labor Government had put politics and gun lobbyists ahead of community safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the Leader of the Victorian Greens, Ellen Sandell:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cVictorians are right to ask why anyone needs dozens or even hundreds of firearms and why Labor is letting them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis was Labor\u2019s chance to show leadership on gun reform and community safety, but they blinked because they\u2019re more worried about upsetting powerful gun lobby groups in marginal seats ahead of this year\u2019s election than community safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is exactly why people are fed up with Labor. They\u2019ll say or do whatever they need to cling to power, even if it means rejecting common-sense reforms to keep people safe, just because the lobbyists will get upset.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Victorian Greens say the Allan Government has capitulated to the gun lobby after rejecting a key recommendation from former Police Commissioner Ken Lay to cap the number of firearms a person can own, following the Bondi massacre. Despite accepting 15 of the 16 recommendations from the firearms review commissioned after the Bondi tragedy, Labor … Continue reading “\u201cTotal capitulation to the gun lobby\u201d Greens say as Jacinta Allan\u2019s Labor rejects firearm ownership caps”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39115,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39114\/revisions\/39115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}