A firearms manufacturer hoping to represent One Nation in New South Wales wants to repeal gun laws introduced following the Bondi beach massacre, after arguing “every single one” of the rifles he produces was banned in the state.
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Earlier this month, One Nation’s NSW leader, Mike Newman, and the federal MP Barnaby Joyce revealed Jeff Bacon would be second on the party’s upper house ticket in the March state election.
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Bacon → reveal → election
Bacon is the managing director of Oceania Precision, a weapons manufacturer based in Tamworth.
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Bacon → base → Tamworth
The announcement of his candidacy was made in Tamworth before Bacon hosted a One Nation forum on firearms legislation attended by gun lobby groups and local gun clubs, as well as Newman and Joyce.
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Bacon → make → groups
Newman said Bacon was “not only a firearms owner, but he is also a manufacturer and also he is an innovator” with “patents across the world”.
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he → say → world
He said Bacon would be “my go-to man on the firearms industry”.
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Bacon → say → industry
Bacon ran as the lower house candidate for Tamworth with the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party in 2019.
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Bacon → run → 2019
He joined the Nationals in 2023 before defecting to One Nation.
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He → join → Nation
On 3 October this year, he said in Tamworth that running for parliament again “wasn’t a hard decision”.
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running → say → parliament
“To be honest I’d rather continue in my business than be in some way forced to step into politics,” he said.
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he → continue → politics
“[But] I’m going to do everything that I can do – not only to fight for the repeal of the legislation.”
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I → go → legislation
In a statement at the time, Bacon said: “One Nation will repeal the firearms element of the Terrorism and Other Legislation Amendment Act, restoring rights to what they were when we had a functioning system before December last year, when the Minns government and the Liberal party rushed legislation through on Christmas Eve.”
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government → say → Eve
In December 2025, Labor and the Liberals changed the law to limit recreational license-holders to four firearms and primary producers to 10, and legislated for NSW to participate in a joint buyback of weapons with the federal government.
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NSW → change → government
NSW is the only state to sign on to the federal scheme so far.
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NSW → sign → scheme
It’s due to begin on 2 November.
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The NSW parliament also voted to recategorise weapons including straight-pull and lever-release rifles meaning recreational hunters will no longer be able to own them.
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hunters → vote → them
One of the alleged Bondi shooters, Indian national Sajid Akram, owned six weapons on a recreational hunting licence, including straight-pull rifles allegedly used during the antisemitic attack on 14 December that killed 15 people during Hanukah celebrations.
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Oceania Precision’s website describes its rifles as “built specifically for law enforcement”.
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website → describe → enforcement
It currently advertises one model: a select-fire tactical rifle which it describes as “restricted” for law enforcement.
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it → advertise → enforcement
As recently as June, it described itself as a manufacturer for the “Australian domestic and professional market”, according to website snapshots from the Internet Archive.
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At that time, it advertised two models for the commercial market, the straight-pull SP25-TAC and the lever-release Renegade, although archived webpages suggest both have been described as “not available in NSW” since last year, before the firearms changes enacted after the Bondi shootings.
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both → advertise → shootings
In January, Bacon told the Northern Daily Leader that the government’s firearms reforms had seen “every single one” of his rifles banned in NSW, the paper reported.
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paper → tell → NSW
He said his business would be “broke in six months if this continues – we’re done, we’re finished”.
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we → say → months
“I’m in the middle of two manufacturing runs right now,” he said at the time.
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“We’re on hold right now, we just don’t know what’s happening.
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what → ’re → hold
We’ve had all of our orders cancelled.”
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all → have → orders
In August, Bacon told trade website Defence Connect that his business was at risk of collapse following the gun reforms.
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business → tell → reforms
“Our entire research and development budget is funded through our commercial sporting sales,” he said at the time.
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he → fund → time
“These revenue streams have been severely impacted, significantly reducing our ability to invest in ongoing innovation and product development.”
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streams → impact → innovation
The laws recategorising straight-pull and lever-release weapons have yet to take effect.
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laws → recategorise → effect
Owners will be able to surrender them over a 12-month period under the buyback – after which they will become illegal for those on recreational licenses.
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they → surrender → licenses
One Nation is running on a platform of repealing the buyback and most changes to firearms laws in NSW since the Bondi attack.
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Nation → run → attack
After One Nation won the Farrer byelection in South Australia in May, the Oceania Precision Instagram account posted a picture of Bacon with the federal leader, Pauline Hanson.
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The caption stated: “The 2027 NSW state election is fast approaching, we need to support the people who support our industry, join the party today.”
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who → state → party
In Tamworth in early October, Bacon said he supported changes voted through as part of December’s reforms which are set to make Australian citizenship a requirement for recreational firearms license after the buyback is complete.
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buyback → say → license
“What happened at the end of last year was a tragedy but what followed was probably some of the worst politics that we’ve ever seen,” he said when launching his upper house tilt.
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Bacon said the weapons industry hadn’t been consulted.
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industry → say → ?
He cited a survey by gun lobby group the Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia which suggested that half of the dealers in NSW were facing closure.
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One Nation is polling at 25% of the primary vote in NSW, according to a Sydney Morning Herald Resolve poll in September.
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If that support eventuated in March, the party could win at least five upper house seats.
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party → eventuate → seats
…and 13 more, not listed.
The Aporia
