Victorian MP says national gun registry ‘wouldn’t have changed a thing’ in Qld cop shootings

There’s a growing push to nationalise gun laws after two police officers were shot dead in Queensland last week, but a Victorian MP says that won’t change a thing.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed the issue will be on the agenda at the next National Cabinet meeting in early 2023.

But Victorian Shooters, Farmers and Fishers MP Jeff Bourman says a national gun registration system won’t reduce gun deaths.

Press PLAY below to hear why Mr Bourman says a natioanl gun registration system “is not going to fix the problem”

“All you would have is instead of registries being useless at a state level, it’d be useless at a federal level,” he told Heidi Murphy, filling in for Tom Elliott.

“Rather than a licensing or registration system, the data sharing of intelligence, I think, was failing, rather than the gun laws.

“There was intelligence that NSW Police had, I don’t know what that intelligence was but there was obviously problems, but that was never shared with Queensland Police.”