This survey collects measureable evidence on the impacts of proposed firearms law reforms in the ACT, including ownership caps, recategorisations and potential buyback schemes.

The data from the survey will be used to support submissions, discussions and liaison that SSAA ACT Inc. may have with government regarding policy and law changes.

All information will have any personal details removed before use and any personal information shared will be stored inline with personal information storage requirements.

Additionally, the survey responses may be provided to related entities (ie: other shooting organisations) where appropriate, but any personal information that you provide will not.

You will not be contacted unless you provide us with your name and email address.

This is a long survey and gathers a lot of information. Each section has been carefully considered to enable the most accurate information as possible be collected to support any arguments and justifications that need to be made.

If you want to save your survey progress you will be asked to enter your email address. This enables the survey to be saved and it will send you a link to recommence when you are able. This email address will not be saved as part of the survey response.

There are some sections in the survey where you can type free text/additional information. Please keep these respectful and appropriate.

Finally, the survey is hosted by an Australian company on survers that are located in Australia. If you want to do some research into the survey provider, it is SnapForms. Because they are based in Australia, they are bound by the Australian Privacy Principles and they do not access the survey data without the customers (in this case, SSAA ACT Inc.) consent.

If you want to save your survey responses, you must enter your email address. 

This will not be used unless you provide your consent to be contacted by SSAA ACT Inc.

A Registered User is a person who has submitted an application to the ACT Firearms Registry to be a user of a firearm. 

This section asks about potential recategorisations. Proposed is (highlighted is what is proposed to change): 

Category A limited to:

• airguns (other than semiautomatic airguns);
  

• rim-fire rifles (other than self-loading, straight pull repeating action, self-opening action or self-closing action) with magazine capacity of not more than 10 rounds

• shotguns (other than self-loading, pump action, straight pull repeating action, lever-action, self-opening action or self-closing action) with magazine capacity of not more than 5 rounds

Category B limited to:

• centre-fire rifles (other than self-loading, straight pull repeating action, self-opening action or self-closing action) with magazine capacity of not more than 10 rounds.

• semiautomatic airguns
  

Category C limited to:

• self-opening action and self-closing action rim-fire rifles with magazine capacity of not more than 10 rounds;
  

• self-opening action and self-closing action shotguns with magazine capacity of not more than 5 rounds;
  

• straight pull repeating action firearms (rim-fire rifles, centre-fire rifles and shotguns)
  

Category D limited to: 

• self-opening action and self-closing action centre-fire rifles;
  

• self-opening action and self-closing action rim-fire rifles with magazine capacity of more than 10 rounds;
  

• self-loading shotguns with magazine capacity of more than 5 rounds;

• self-opening action and self-closing action shotguns with magazine capacity of more than 5 rounds;

Please note: there is no differentiation between removable magazines and internal magazines. Traditional lever actions with more than 10 round internal capacity are captured here. 

Button and lever release are described as "self-opening action" or "self-closing action".