WAPol has been busy cutting deals with safe suppliers who pander to them.
We tell you what the Cook Government is planning for you & the cost it will bring.
It’s why WA shooters need to vote Labor out of office.
WA’s proposed safe requirements
WA LABOR has revealed it’s horrendous proposal for new storage requirements for shooters.
The proposal will form the basis for the new regulations, due to come out after the WA State Election in March.
WA Police are also speaking with suppliers about the products that will meet the new requirements.
While this might seem reasonable on the surface, it means local suppliers will be given licence to ensure the regulations point to the products they sell.
What WAPol isn’t doing is consulting the wider shooting community – including other suppliers interstate or internationally.
Consulting only a chosen range of suppliers shuts the door for shooters who might wish to source safes from elsewhere. Here is the table of new requirements – click the image below to see a larger version.
Dodgy deals, done dirt cheap
We understand WA Police have also told shooters that they will make their own determinations on what safes can be ‘approved’.
The problem with this, is that WA Police aren’t experts on safe design.
If WAPol was genuinely interested in specifying requirements rather than specific brands, then they need to look at what is available internationally.
It’s not good enough to look at just what is supplied in Perth.
This arrangement has all the hallmarks of setting up deals for those who side with the police.
Get offside with the police, and they’ll shut you down.
Or side with them, and get rewarded.
A quick look at the new safe requirements
If you look at the table, you will see that:
- Safe thicknesses start at 3mm sides and 6mm doors for longarms– well above what is required in other states;
- Alarms will be required on the 6th firearm; and
- CCTV will be required when you get to the 6th firearm in some categories
When a new safe might be needed
The table does provide grandfathering of existing arrangements for some existing licencees.
However, don’t forget WA also licences firearms. It remains to be seen if buying a new firearm will require new safes to be installed.
In the meantime, the WA Government has not yet announced any financial assistance to help shooters with the new requirements … and of course, is unlikely to do so.
One savvy shooter who did some shopping around told us:
“… the extreme level required of the new laws which you can buy today has 2 double doors on the front and will set one back $11,750 without delivery and installation costs. Weighs over 500kg”.
Whether that ends up being the actual cost to you isn’t the point.
The point is that even if it was half that amount, the new laws are a massive impost on shooters. They are disgraceful and you deserve better.
That’s why the laws MUST BE REPEALED.
** VOTE, VOTE, VOTE **
Our advice to shooters who are looking at this in despair, is that you need to make sure you vote properly in March.
That means putting Labor, then the Greens last – no matter what electorate you are in. Why? Because of this garbage.
You might think that you are a lone voice and won’t make any difference, but you’re wrong. There are 90,000 of you who are thinking the same thing so you aren’t alone.
In other words, just make sure you can do what you can at the ballot box. Let your shooting mates know to do the same.
We’ll be doing our bit too.
We’ll be ramping up our articles and videos in early January. That’s because we want to make sure we get this message to as many shooters in WA as possible.
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Why not put this on your club’s noticeboard?
A safe is only as strong as the person holding the key. It’s not about improving community safety if firearm owners are advised by WA Police to surrender their safe keys when confronted by criminals. Yeah, nah that’s failed the pub test.
WA Police need to do a lot better.
Will the WA Labour Govt. offer a bay back scheme for soon to be “non compliant gun safes”?
I don’t think so!
Many licenced firearm owners have spent $1000’s on firearm safes which were compliant at the time of purchase but they will now have to spend $1000’s of dollars more.
It is time to remove WA Labour from Govt.
If cat H firearms need to be in a safe with 6mm wall and 10mm door, then all WAPOL stations will have to upgrade their members storage for their service pistols. It’s going to cost them a fortune to upgrade.
will never happen. this is a response to when the police minister stuffed up and released the maps of all firearm owners addresses in perth. hopefully once safes are upgraded the crims will break into police stations instead of our houses on the map.