Queensland Police want the ability to take your guns even if you’ve been found not guilty of an offence, or had “No Conviction Recorded”.
Weapons Licensing Group (WLG)’s latest attack on shooters is trying to get the legislation changed so that “No Conviction Recorded” offences, or offences were the person was found innocent, or were charged but later dropped, can be used to disqualify otherwise suitable applicants from obtaining a firearms licence.
This was confirmed to us in a meeting with WLG earlier this week, where the Firearms Dealers Association of Queensland and SSAA QLD were also present – and opposed to the changes.
There is a Supreme Court of Queensland (Commissioner of Police v XPR – [2025] QCA 93) decision saying “no conviction recorded” offences cannot be taken into account for firearms licensing, and efforts to include these matters for consideration in the Queensland Community Safety Bill were unanimously slapped down last year by all parties in Parliament, with now-Police Minister Dan Purdie being especially vocal on the subject.
This has nothing to do with public safety – we think this is all about public servants abusing their position to get political revenge, and once again, responsible, law-abiding firearms users are the ones who get a kicking.
While we push back against this at Ministerial and MP level, we need your help to let politicians know this is a real issue with serious ramifications across the entire community.
Please contact your local MP about this matter and tell them you are horrified that a Government department are not only trying to ignore Parliament and the Courts, but persisting in pushing an agenda they have been explicitly told to drop.
Bureaucrats do not, and should not, get to make laws!
https://www.qld.gov.au/…/contact…/contacts/local-mp
