Inside Senator Bridget McKenzie’s firearms repeal campaign

This SSAA TV interview focuses on Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie’s campaign against the federal firearms reforms introduced after the December 2025 Bondi terrorist attack.

McKenzie argues the Commonwealth and NSW responses targeted licensed firearm owners instead of criminal access, intelligence failures and enforcement. The discussion covers the NSW buyback and ownership caps, compensation concerns, resistance from several states and territories and the effect of uncertainty on firearm owners and businesses.

A major focus is McKenzie’s Firearms Legislation Amendment (Repealing Unfair Gun Laws) Bill 2026, which seeks to overturn the Commonwealth firearms and importation changes passed earlier in the year and remove the national buyback framework.

She also discusses her resignation from shadow cabinet, the need for shooting organisations to work together and the growing political competition for firearm-owner votes. The interview presents McKenzie’s case against the reforms rather than an independent assessment of them.