The Western Australian government has announced mandatory mental health checks for firearm licence holders following a total of 20 deaths by gunshot wounds in the state last year.
“Anything to keep the community safe should be reviewed, but also understanding shooting is still a sport,” Shadow Victoria Police and Youth Justice Minister Brad Battin told Sky News Australia.
“It’s a way to have community engagement with those people so I think we’ve also got to protect that at the same time. “As far as gun laws, we’ve got some of the toughest gun laws in the world. But you can always look at ways of improving. “The Victorian police, they are the first to say, the challenge with the firearm registry is how do we get the illegal guns off the street – the legal ones as a rule aren’t the ones used in a lot of these major crimes or in crime sprees, it’s the illegal ones.”
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