MARANOA MP David Littleproud has introduced a Bill into the House of Representatives to repeal Labor’s controversial firearms laws.
Mr Littleproud, the former Leader of the Nationals, said licensed gun owners should never have been used as scapegoats for Islamic terrorism.
“Almost one million law-abiding Australians were blamed for a crime they did not commit, and that was wrong,” said Mr Littleproud, who was back in Parliament this morning after attending the Birdsville races on the weekend in one of the far-flung corners of his vast electorate.
“The Bondi massacre was an act of Islamic terrorism. It had nothing to do with licensed firearm owners, and no evidence has ever linked them to it.”
Mr Littleproud said the Bill would restore Commonwealth firearms and importation law to its position before Labor’s Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Firearms and Customs Laws) Act 2026, and would abolish the Prime Minister’s National Gun Buyback Scheme.
“The Royal Commission’s own interim report confirmed that no agency identified any gap in the pre-existing legal framework that impeded the prevention of, or response to, the Bondi attack. That finding demolishes the entire premise of Labor’s legislation.”
“The perpetrators should never have had access to a firearm under the laws that already existed. How they obtained one is a question for the Royal Commission, not an excuse to punish farmers, sporting shooters and hunters who follow the rules.”
Mr Littleproud said the Government’s buyback scheme remained stalled, with Queensland, the Northern Territory and Victoria declining to participate, Tasmania pursuing its own arrangements, and South Australia refusing to change its laws. Only New South Wales and the ACT have committed to the buyback.
“While the Government’s buyback goes nowhere, lawful firearms businesses, many of them small family operations that have served their communities for generations, are being destroyed by Labor’s laws.”
Mr Littleproud’s latest efforts in this space come after a petition, opposing Labor’s post-Bondi gun laws, attracted more than 71,000 signatures.
POSTED: Monday, September 7, 2026