PHOTO: The new registry aims to close a loophole that allowed Nathaniel Train to purchase ammunition despite a suspended licence. IMAGE: facebook
The Federal Government has put up $161.3m to be invested over four years to establish a National Firearms Register.
It comes after the tragic events at Wieambilla, Queensland in December 2022 where Constables Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold, and neighbour Alan Dare were shot and killed by religious extremists, Gareth, Nathaniel and Stacey Train, at a remote property 300 kilometres to Brisbane’s west.
Nathaniel Train, a former principal of Walgett school, was a licenced gun holder who had his licence suspended six months before the shootings.
Police have said Nathaniel Train was still able to purchase ammunition around the Wieambilla region in the lead up to the shooting because he still had a physical copy of the weapons licence…