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The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers party (SFF) has denied it’s ever been in official contact with the American National Rifle Association.
“SFF has never, ever received any money from nor entered into any discussions with the NRA. We don't support American style gun laws,” a party spokesperson told The Feed.
An Al-Jazeera investigation has revealed secret meetings that took place last September between top One Nation party staffers and the US National Rifle Association (NRA).
One Nation’s Chief of Staff James Ashby and Queensland leader Steve Dickson were caught telling NRA representatives that a $10 million donation could deliver the minor party eight Senate seats.
They also praised the NRA’s official response to mass shootings and alluded to weakening Australia’s gun laws in exchange for donations.
SFF and One Nation
The SFF party said it was pressed for time today and didn’t respond to The Feed’s question about whether it will enter into a preference deal with One Nation at the upcoming federal election.
However, it has historically supported One Nation.
In February, SFF party made a deal with One Nation to ensure it didn’t run a candidate against the SFF Member for Orange, Phil Donato, in the most recent New South Wales state election.
Donato was re-elected.
The handshake deal, done with recent One Nation recruit Mark Latham, also saw both parties put the other second on their Upper House how-to-vote cards.
Gun laws
NSW SFF leader Robert Borsak appeared on ABC News Breakfast this morning to confirm that the party had no interest in rolling back gun laws.
“They [gun laws] have been working well for a long period of time, certainly since '96. We never did ask for a situation that we saw in New Zealand,” Borsak said.
On the SFF official website, they state their firearms policy is, “underpinned by the notion that community safety is of the utmost importance.”
A look into the firearm policies on the SFF website shows that they support a review of the 1996 National Firearms Agreement of COAG, the gun restrictions brought in after the Port Arthur massacre.
They also wish to remove the recording of ammunition sales, increase funding to ‘Shooting Australia’ and expand self-defense rights and non-lethal means of protection, among other policies.
