During a meeting of gun owners and industry experts in Western Australia, Lance French of SGS Industries, an Australian weapons manufacturer, issued a warning to U.S. gun owners that firearm control laws can never be restricted and are always expanding. The meeting was in response to impending state laws that will ban high-powered firearms as part of the gun control regime. French explained that Australian governments began a gun control program after the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, which continues to restrict firearms to this day. He emphasized that gun control laws do not stop at a particular gun and legislators consistently cut corners and take the edges off. In a separate opinion, gun owner Kate Fantinel argued that the WA government should focus on addressing cost-of-living pressures rather than creating problems out of thin air. Meanwhile, the Western Australia Labor government plans to ban high-powered firearms that can fire over long distances and are armor-piercing, and Premier Mark McGowan urged legal owners to dispose of the banned firearms by July 1, 2023. However, the number of illegal firearms on the “grey market” still remains high. In the United States, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries demanded that the Republican-led House vote on gun control legislation immediately after the Nashville shooting, and President Joe Biden reiterated his call to ban “assault” weapons. The National Gun Violence Archive reported 130 mass shooting incidents this year.