The Australian Government is pursuing firearms reclassification, buybacks, and further restrictions that target people who have followed every law placed upon them — licensed, vetted, law-abiding citizens.

These measures do not address criminal gun violence, organised crime, or extremism. They instead place the burden of government failure onto compliant Australians who are easy to regulate and politically convenient to pressure.

Firearm licence holders already undergo:

Background checks
Character assessments
Ongoing monitoring
Strict storage and use requirements
They are not the source of violent crime in Australia.

Yet they are being told to surrender lawful property through reclassification and forced buyback schemes, not because of wrongdoing, but because of decisions made elsewhere that governments refuse to confront.

This approach punishes compliance and sends a clear message:
following the law offers no protection from future confiscation.

Public safety is not improved by repeatedly restricting people who have already demonstrated responsibility. It is improved by enforcing existing laws, addressing failures in screening and monitoring, and targeting criminal behaviour directly.

Australians are increasingly frustrated because they are being treated as a problem to be managed rather than citizens who upheld their obligations while governments failed to uphold theirs.

 
What We Are Calling For
We call on all State, Territory, and Federal Governments to:

• Halt further firearm reclassification and forced buyback schemes targeting lawful owners
• End policies that punish compliance rather than criminal behaviour
• Protect lawful firearm ownership for vetted Australian citizens
• Focus enforcement efforts on illegal firearms, organised crime, and genuine threats
• Provide transparency and accountability for failures that have led to current security concerns
• Law-abiding Australians should not be made to pay for failures they did not create.

This petition is not about criminal access to weapons — which is already illegal.
It is about fairness, proportionality, and the main root of this issue, immigration.