Queensland police gun control criticised

The Queensland Auditor-General’s Regulating Firearms report was tabled on Friday, and there was no shortage of criticism of the police.

“QPS does not have the right balance between affording procedural fairness for licence applicants and managing community safety,” it said. The report stated that by the end of 2019, there were 185,742 firearms licences and 829,743 registered firearms in Queensland. “More than 78 per cent of licences issued between 2015-19 have never been inspected,” the Auditor-General wrote.

“We are very comfortable with the 13 recommendations that have been made and we accept them,” Ms Linford said.“The most important part for us is the community safety issue and making sure that any person that either applies to get a firearm and a licence … are the proper person to have one.”

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