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Call to action! Fight the ammo law

It appears as though the bureaucracy are taking things into their own hands, and trying to pre-empt the way the ammunition control laws should be operated. The SFP is calling on you to help stop them.

Useless ammo law to hit shooters in March

From 4 March it will become harder to buy a firearm and ammunition in NSW as a new ammunition control law comes into effect, forcing a new burden of bureaucracy on shooters and dealers.

AWU clouds the facts

Factually incorrect and misleading statements made by the AWU do not do anything but cloud the true situation and real debate on the issue, the Game Council says.

GetUp! overstates the risk

The NSW Game Council says the GetUp! anti-hunting ad does nothing to further the debate on hunting in National Parks and can be added to the piles of misinformation that have characterised media attention on this issue.

Propaganda: GetUp! to run anti-hunting ad

A portion of the provocative ad. Click the image below the story to see the full ad.

The Sun Herald may this week run an anti-hunting ad that makes blatantly false claims and shows a hunter aiming dangerously towards a family of bushwalkers.

Snap Shots

Of course I keep a gun under my pillow. It's the only way to stop that damn alarm!

SA ducks season opener; Game Council boss on Hunting Podcast; no hunting on Sunday; Maltese hunting politics; die, alarm clock, die!

Data security cannot be guaranteed: auditor

Fears that the security of firearm owners has been compromised by the NSW police are strengthened by an Auditor-General's report that found the state government cannot guarantee the security of sensitive personal information on its databases.

Collard's Bronze Continues Australian Success

Josh Collard won bronze behind Italy's Roberto Scalzone (gold, centre) and Slovakia's Erik Varga (silver).

Joshua Collard has added to Australia's medal tally at the 2013 Qatar Open by winning a bronze medal in the men's trap in Doha.

Shut gun registry: petition

A petition calling on NSW to abolish its Firearms Registry has been started in the wake of revelations that police have been lax with the security of gun owners' data.

Downs shooter takes tight Crows Nest contest

Top Ipswich shooter John Hislop is all concentration on the 500 yard mound at Crows Nest on Sunday.

Darling Downs Rifle Club member Rob McMaster held his nerve to win a tight season-opening Prize Shoot at Crows Nest on Sunday.

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9mm Colt 1911 due in May

Aussie exclusive: the 1911 will be available in 9mm for the first time since 1990.

Made exclusively for the Australian market, Colt’s new Government 1911 9mm semi-auto pistol will arrive in Australia in May.