Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

We have a very high standard of firearm regulation in Australia—the envy of the world. But what we have is a very significant black market trade in illegal weapons smuggled into Australia. Our law enforcement agencies do everything they can to stamp it out. Our job as parliamentarians is to give them the tools to do that job. That is why we have sought to persuade the opposition to back a minimum mandatory sentence of five years for gun smuggling, for illegal trafficking in guns, and to double the maximum penalties from 10 to 20 years. We get in response the claim that the opposition does not as a matter of principle—

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