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The Queensland Community Safety Bill 2024 uses previous Court determined "No Conviction Recorded" outcomes for minor offences such as an assault, possessing a joint or even stealing, against a firearm licence holder, making them not a "Fit and Proper Person" under the Weapons Act 1990.

Your previous "once off" mistake that you may have made and received no conviction recorded for in court, could be now used against you to put a firearms prohibition order on you to remove your firearms licence, prohibit you from living at a house where there are firearms registered and subject you to endless searches of you, your vehicle and your premises for UP TO 10 YEARS without requiring a warrant!!!!

We have a housing crisis in Queensland currently, this means that if you rent a place that is owned by registered firearm holder, you cannot live there if you have a firearms prohibition order on you for something you previously did and received no conviction recorded for.

Farm employees with a firearms prohibition order cannot attend a farm to work if there are registered firearms listed at that address.

If you've had a fight when you were younger and punched someone at the pub leaving bruising on them and having been charged with assault occasioning bodily harm, EVEN THOUGH NO CONVICTION WAS RECORDED AGAINST YOU, you can still lose your firearms licence and be subjected to warrantless searches of you, your vehicle and wherever you reside for THE NEXT 10 YEARS under this Community Safety Bill.

Our view is that "No Conviction Recorded" means exactly that and that this Community Safety Bill is an extreme overreach of power to use a person's previous mistake against them regardless of their current law-abiding behaviour.