A police shooting in rural Queensland has renewed a push for a national gun register to better track firearms across state and territory borders.
A national register may not necessarily have made a difference at Wiembilla, Mr Leavers said."What I believe we need is a nationalised system which would record you being a licence holder, any weapons that you acquire, dispose of, have in your possession or that have been reported stolen [and] any offences which have been committed that relate to firearms," Mr Leavers said.
Deputy Commissioner Linford said improvements to the Australian Firearms Information Network , and Queensland's own firearm database, were being considered. ASIC calls its national database a reference tool to help police "identify and record firearms in a consistent way". Queensland police Deputy Commissioner Tracy Linford says officers were responding to a "run-of-the-mill" job.
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