{"id":52087,"date":"2021-04-12T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T02:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=52087"},"modified":"2021-04-12T11:41:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T02:11:07","slug":"australia-risks-whittling-away-port-arthur-gun-laws-says-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/australia-risks-whittling-away-port-arthur-gun-laws-says-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Risks \u2018Whittling Away\u2019 Port Arthur Gun Laws, Says Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia risks \u201cwhittling away\u201d the strong gun laws introduced by the former Howard government in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre, says an expert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/david-and-will\/david-and-will-podcast-12-april-2021\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"David and Will podcast - 12 April 2021\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the weekend Mr Howard urged for the laws not to be \u201cfrittered away\u201d. Founding director of GunPolicy.org Philip Alpers told FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David &amp; Will on Monday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cHe does have every right to feel frustrated. He came back from the Port Arthur funerals having shed a tear and immediately declared there would be, for example, a firearm registry across the country\u2026 that hasn\u2019t happened.<\/p><p>\u201cFour consecutive formal reports have no found hat not a single Australian state or territory has at any stage fully complied with the National Firearms Agreement of 1996, and most of them have slipped backwards\u2026<\/p><p>\u201cThere\u2019s constant pressure\u2026 there is always pressure to whittle down the gun laws\u2026 that just gradually whittles away and one day we have less strong gun laws than we had in \u201996.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>FIVEAA FACEBOOK LIVE STREAM &#8211; MONDAY 12 APRIL &#8211; WATCH HERE:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1395FIVEAA%2Fvideos%2F809588146605423%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia risks \u201cwhittling away\u201d the strong gun laws introduced by the former Howard government in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre, says an expert. Over the weekend Mr Howard urged for the laws not to be \u201cfrittered away\u201d. Founding director of GunPolicy.org Philip Alpers told FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David &amp; Will on Monday: \u201cHe does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":52088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-52087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Australia Risks \u2018Whittling Away\u2019 Port Arthur Gun Laws, Says Expert - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/australia-risks-whittling-away-port-arthur-gun-laws-says-expert\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Australia Risks \u2018Whittling Away\u2019 Port Arthur Gun Laws, Says Expert\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Australia risks \u201cwhittling away\u201d the strong gun laws introduced by the former Howard government in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre, says an expert. 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