ACT MP Nicole McKee said the Government had made the wrong moves when it came to firearms reform since the March 15 attack. What we re looking at is a piece of rushed legislation, or two pieces of rushed legislation, that went through so fast that the unintended consequences of doing that are starting to be realised, and of course the effects that we re seeing are a less safer community.
McKee said licensed firearms owners felt alienated by the Government s moves to ban military style semi-automatic firearms, the type used in the March 15 terror attack.
She said gun owners had been made to feel like criminals and that had led to less safety around firearms than before the terror attack.