Let’s be honest about what just happened in Australia, because the political class is lying to you again.
This week, tougher gun laws slid through Parliament, wrapped in the usual language: “safety,” “common sense,” “getting dangerous weapons off the streets.” You’ve heard this script before. It’s the same script every government uses when it wants more control and less accountability.
And right now, the face of that betrayal is Dan Repacholi.
Repacholi is not some inner-city activist who’s never touched a firearm. He’s an Olympic shooter. A man who built his public image on sport shooting, discipline, and responsibility. A man who campaigned as someone who understood shooters, hunters, and rural Australians.
And then he voted to take their rights away.
When Nationals Senator Ross Cadell called him out on Facebook – saying, plainly, “If you’re a hunter in the Hunter, Dan just voted to take away your gun rights” – Repacholi didn’t respond like a leader.
He responded like an angry teenager.
“Bullshit,” he wrote.
No explanation.
No respect.
No attempt to engage.
Just a crude dismissal.
What followed tells you everything you need to know.
Hundreds of comments. Hunters. Farmers. Sport shooters. Ordinary people who followed the law, paid their fees, jumped through every hoop, and believed this man represented them.
And then, suddenly, Repacholi went quiet.
You might think this was just one Facebook post.
It wasn’t.
More posts started appearing. More community groups. More shooters realising they had been sold out by one of their own.
This was never about criminals.
Criminals do not hand in their guns.
Terrorists do not line up at Service NSW to fill out compliance forms.
Yet Anthony Albanese is now boasting about “getting dangerous guns off our streets,” as if the people affected by these laws are gang members and extremists.
They’re not.
They’re licensed shooters.
Vetted shooters.
People already living under some of the strictest gun laws on Earth.
Australia is now becoming one of the only countries that punishes its own citizens for the actions of Islamic terrorists.
Not border failures.
Not intelligence failures.
Not visa failures.
No — the solution is to make it harder for a farmer in the Hunter to own a rifle.
And while they’re at it, they’re piling on hate speech laws, speech codes, new offences, new taskforces.
More hoops.
More paperwork.
More surveillance.
Not because it will stop violence.
But because it gives the government cover.
Because it distracts from the real scandal.
The NSW Government licensed the terrorist’s family, even though the son had been on an ASIO watch list.
That is not a gun problem.
That is a government failure.
And instead of owning that failure, they’re changing the subject.
Soon, it won’t just be your firearms.
It will be your speech.
Because under these new hate laws, when “Bill” in a Facebook group says something stupid after a few beers, the so-called “hate disruptors” will come knocking.
Police won’t be chasing terrorists.
They’ll be chasing posts.
And Bill will disappear into the system, while the people who failed to protect the country hold another press conference.
This is not about safety.
It’s about control.
And Dan Repacholi didn’t just vote with Labor.
He voted against the very people who trusted him most.
Hunters are watching.
Shooters are watching.
And next time, they’ll remember exactly who took their rights away.
