Millions of Dollars for National Guns Register Sparks Concerns

Nationals Queensland Senator Matt Canavan has raised alarm bells about the federal Labor government spending millions of dollars on a gun register. This comes after Attorney General Mark Dreyfus confirmed that $161.3 million (US$105 million) over four years will be spent to establish the National Firearms Register. The creation of the register, which will link information about firearm ownership from every state in the country to a central hub, was first announced in December. However, the new funding came amid the anniversary of the Port Arthur massacre, where 35 people were killed in Australia’s worst historical mass shooting on April 28, 1996. In response to the news, Mr. Canavan questioned why the government needed to be spending this amount of money just to be “making a spreadsheet” of the guns in Australia....