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April 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A new Firearms Intelligence and Targeting Team is to be established to link all available information on illicit firearms in a move to tackle rising gun crime.
Home Affairs and Justice Minister Jason Clare said this was the same model used by Customs and Border Protection and other law enforcement agencies for counter-terrorism, counter-proliferation activities and illegal drug importation and it had proved highly effective.
Mr Clare said work would start immediately and be stepped up over the next few months.
“By fusing together all available intelligence this improves the ability of Customs and Border Protection to target illegal imports, which leads to more seizures and more arrests,” he said in a statement.
A series of drive-by shootings in NSW over December-January heightened concern about gun crime.
That was followed in March by the arrest of three men for their part in smuggling as many as 200 handguns into Australia.
That bust emerged from a joint operation involving NSW and Australian Federal Police, Customs and Border Protection and the Australia Post Corporate Security Group. The nation’s peak crime-fighting body, the Australian Crime Commission (ACC), had started a national intelligence assessment on the illegal firearms market launched in February.
Commission chief executive John Lawler briefed state and territory attorneys-general and justice ministers on progress on that assessment at their meeting on Thursday.
Mr Lawler said the large domestic black market consisted of at least 10,000 illegal handguns, many in circulation for decades and sometimes much longer. In two recent cases, guns seized from criminal gangs were more than 100 years old.
He said this black market comprised thousands of stolen firearms, others sourced from dishonest dealers, some not surrendered or registered under national firearms buybacks plus others either manufactured or reactivated by backyard operators.
Mr Lawler said criminals also sought to import firearms, usually on an ad hoc and opportunistic basis.
Mr Clare said the federal government has asked the commission, Australian Federal Police and Customs and Border Protection what immediate action should be taken.
“The advice I have received from all of them is the same – more intelligence is the key,” he said.
“The more intelligence law enforcement agencies have, the more drugs and guns they can seize on the streets and at the border.”
Mr Clare said the commission had identified a several areas in need of reform.
This includes strengthening existing systems and processes, enhancing the prevention, targeting and response capabilities of law enforcement agencies and improving the quality of firearms data and access to it by law enforcement agencies.
Mr Clare said the commission will circulate their its report to state and territory police and assess their feedback.
Police commissioners and the heads of federal agencies will meet in June to discuss the results of the intelligence assessment and the recommendations they will present to governments.
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