Shooters Union of South Australia in Christies Beach | Lobbyist

Shooters Union of South Australia

Locality: Christies Beach

Address: 51 Beach Road 5165 Christies Beach, SA, Australia

Website: https://shootersunion.com.au

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22.01.2022 We have an outcome around the Gel Blasters..there is bad news and good news. https://www.police.sa.gov.au//firearms-and-we/gel-blasters They are being moved to an imitation firearm and are being treated the same as paintball, even when using them (it has to be on a licenced field, same as paintball). Not the outcome that we wanted and the fight will continue, HOWEVER......... Now The Government have done this to Gel Blasters it gives an opportunity to push for AIRSOFT to be legalised!! This regulation has actually opened the door to challenge AIRSOFT being banned in South Australia. Share this with your friends, as we are going to need as much support as possible. Instead of handing your Gel Blasters in, why not apply for your firearms licence. Information on how to apply can be found here: https://www.thegunnery.com.au/licence-application.php We are waiting for some confirmation around club licencing for people under 18. More to come on this....

22.01.2022 Not only are we fighting for firearms owners rights in SA daily (on a voluntary basis) we are also fighting and have been doing so for months in support of Gel Basters in SA and we will continue to do so. Today we have added $1K to the Go Fund Me for Gel Blaster Association Of Australia's to help with the class action. Please donate as much as you can, to help GBAA get the funds to fight this reclassification in court. ... As a group of volunteers in SA we will continue to fight on and be a voice for LAFO's.

18.01.2022 ** GEL BLASTER DECISION MEANS MORE REAL GUNS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA ** SOUTH AUSTRALIA’s pre-eminent pro-shooting organisation has expressed its puzzled delight at ...a police decision to reclassify the hundreds of thousands of toy gel blasters in the state as firearms and require owners to obtain a licence. Shooters Union South Australia (SUSA) president Peter Heggie said the announcement by SAPOL that toy gel blasters were to be treated as real guns, effective immediately, was completely insane and was going to have unforeseen consequences which SUSA were fully prepared to take advantage of. This will do far more to promote the shooting sports in South Australia than any other event in the past 20 years, he said. Naturally we’re appalled by SAPOL’s decision, we are challenging it alongside the state Gel Blaster representative groups, and we’ve been fighting this for a long time already - but in the meantime we’re looking at the positive: There are going to be a lot more people getting firearms licences and taking up shooting as a result. Welcoming all these new people to the wonderful world of responsible gun ownership is going to do wonders for normalising shooting and hunting in South Australia, and mean there are lots more licensed shooters and actual guns in the state - and it’s all thanks to special snowflakes who are scared of toys. Congratulations, gun-haters, you played yourselves. Mr Heggie said he was surprised the plan was not being met with objections from the anti-gun lobby, given that it meant there were going to be more people owning guns in the Festival State. I’m actually surprised Gun Control Australia aren’t having a meltdown over this, since SAPOL’s decision is going to dramatically increase the number of firearms licence holders and actual firearms in South Australia, he said. You’d think they’d prefer people play with harmless toys rather than own actual firearms, but evidently not and here we are. The moral of the story is pretty clear if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it. Gel blasters are toys and if they’d been left along as such, we wouldn’t be in this absurd situation. We now have situation where the Marshall Government is literally taking people’s toys off them and make no mistake, that is going to come back to haunt them at the ballot box.

15.01.2022 Totally agree with Ozzie, you present the facts. Although most of the time its frustrating and like banging your head against a brick wall to get through to people, we won't give up.

10.01.2022 Something new and exciting is in the pipeline for Shooters Union Members in SA. All we can say is hunters, you are going to love this one.

02.01.2022 The Gel Blaster Stores and Gel Ball Association have put up a Go Fund Me page to help cover the legal costs for fighting the reclassification for Gel Blasters. If you can please donate a little to it to help out. https://www.gofundme.com/f/gel-blaster-industry-class-actio