How a cashed-up gun industry wants to change Australia’s firearms laws | Four Corners
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 Published On Mar 25, 2019

You’ve heard of the NRA in America. Well Australia has its own gun lobby too. It’s called SIFA and it’s taking aim at Australia’s politicians.

SIFA’s members include local gun and ammunitions suppliers as well as Australian offshoots of international firearms manufacturers Winchester and Beretta.

Their campaign represents a newly emboldened firearms industry set on changing Australia's gun laws.

In this program, Four Corners investigates the gun industry's political allegiances and how these connections are being used to chip away at gun laws around the country.

Those who delivered the national agreement to limit firearms after the Port Arthur massacre say Australians need to sit up and take notice.

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