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Controversy Over Firearms Buyback Scheme | Farm Weekly

Firearms owners can receive up to $1000 per gun surrendered.
Firearms owners can receive up to $1000 per gun surrendered.

A firearm buyback scheme came into play this week as the State government works towards tightening WA’s gun laws.

For Wagin farmer and clay target shooter Jim West, and plenty of others around the State, these new changes just don’t make sense.

The buyback scheme started earlier this week on Wednesday, February 21 and coincides with the introduction of the controversial new Firearms Bill, which is set to position WA as having the toughest gun laws in the country.

It will become the first State to limit the number of firearms an…

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