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Australian Party fights for Mt Lofty shooting range

Hon Bob Katter MP, Member for Kennedy
Monday, 8 August 2011

Australian Party Federal Leader, Bob Katter, has called on the Federal Government to grant the Mt Lofty shooting range to the six shooting clubs currently based at the facility.

The range has been a shared facility between the army and shooting club members for more than 110 years, but has remained closed since the ADF deemed it unsafe following Toowoomba’s January floods.

It now appears the government will not re-open the facility and will instead look to dispose of it, leaving hundreds of licensed shooters in the area in the lurch.

“You can’t pass laws requiring firearm owners to attend safety courses at ranges and mandate range attendance as a condition of licence and then close the ranges down. If the Federal Government doesn’t want the range or the land, give it to the people who have been good stewards of the site for the past 110 years”, Mr Katter said.

“This is not the first Federal Government range to kick sporting shooters off this year. With the raving anti-gun Greens in control of both the Lower and Upper Houses of Parliament now it isn’t likely to be the last either”.

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