News Desk WA Firearms Health Assessments Rejected by GPs: Labelled – “A Cautionary Tale for Other States” The centrepiece reform of the WA Government’s 2024 firearms legislation, the Firearm Authority Health Assessment (FAHA), has been overwhelmingly rejected by the very ... By Keith Drain7 days ago
News Desk Permit delays threaten South Australian firearms industry The Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia (SIFA) has raised serious concerns about excessive delays in the processing of routine permits and licence applications ... By Keith Drain8 April 2025
News Desk Academic’s conflation of legal firearm ownership with gun crime is not so Bright. An academic has drawn the ire of law-abiding firearm owners recently in an attempt to sell an overpriced book about the illicit firearms ... By Keith Drain7 April 2025
Media Releases Confusion and Concern Over NT Firearms “Self-Check” Requirement. Licensed shooters in the Top End are confused over an order issued by the NT Police that requires every licensed gun owner to ... By Keith Drain2 April 2025
News Desk Tasmania Police’s Mental Health Proposals Slammed by Experts Tasmania’s draft firearms licence application, which includes a range of invasive, irrelevant, and counterproductive questions about an applicant’s physical and mental health, has ... By Keith Drain26 February 2025
Media Releases Clive Pugh Elected as SIFA Chair At the recent SIFA General Meeting held on 14 February 2025, Clive Pugh, Managing Director of Winchester Australia, was elected as the new ... By Keith Drain25 February 2025
News Desk SIFA’s Regulator Performance Survey Launches March 3rd. On March 3rd we will be launching the third annual regulator performance survey to industry. SIFA will again seek input from businesses within ... By Keith Drain18 February 2025
News Desk Preventable Tragedies and Knee-jerk Gun Laws On the first of February, findings from an internal West Australian Police investigation into the tragic Floreat murders in 2024 were released. The ... By Keith Drain10 February 2025
News Desk MEDIA RELEASE: SIFA SLAMS GUN CONTROL AUSTRALIA’S REPORT. Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia (SIFA) CEO James Walsh has called out the latest report (Gun control in Australia An update on firearms ... By Keith Drain30 January 2025
News Desk A Positive Result for Interstate Hunters Visiting Tasmania. SIFA is pleased to share the news that the Tasmanian Government has rectified an issue that prevented licenced firearm owners from outside Tasmania ... By Keith Drain14 January 2025
WA Firearms Health Assessments Rejected by GPs: Labelled – “A Cautionary Tale for Other States” 7 days ago
