00:00To ensure that those things are done is certainly a great step, but we also think that there's
00:06a great opportunity for all of our leaders to come together and look at every opportunity
00:14with the community expectations in mind and not just the needs of the firearm industry to be able
00:22to manage the use of firearms. So for example right now in Australia a 13 year old cannot use Facebook
00:30but they can legally use a firearm. So we think that those things sort of things need to be addressed
00:36and this is the opportunity to do it. New South Wales is the only jurisdiction that provides some
00:42insight into fire ownership so they publicly declare broad information certainly nothing
00:54that identifies any single person but we can extrapolate from that because we don't
00:59imagine that there's any differences in ownership patterns across Australia but in New South Wales
01:06there's over a million registered firearms, there's over 250,000 legal firearm owners and for the large
01:14degree they are very law-abiding people but nevertheless that means that they own on average about four
01:21firearms each. We know that in inner Sydney there are people with firearm licenses with hundreds of registered
01:31firearms stored in suburban streets. Now that's legal, the police know where they are but we think that's totally
01:40intolerant with the community expectations and when we tell people about that they're gobsmacked that those sort of
01:47things that are allowed to happen when we have one of the safest firearm frameworks in the world.
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