Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus will announce the funding commitment on Saturday that will allow police to track gun possession.
A promised national firearms register will receive a $160 million federal government injection in the May budget in a further step in a decades-long push for gun reform.
“The Australian government is committed to protecting the Australian community and ensuring Australia’s firearms laws remain amongst the most effective in the world,” Dreyfus said. In December, national cabinet agreed to create a national firearms register, a year after constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, and local man Alan Dare, were gunned down by Christian extremists at a rural property in Queensland’s Western Downs region.
The register will provide police with a near real-time database on firearms, gun parts and their owners, as well as linking that information with other relevant police and government information, including from the National Criminal Intelligence System.“Once established, police will know where firearms are, who owns them, and what other risks to the community and police may exist,” Dreyfus said, adding the $250 million register was being developed through community consultation.
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