Hon STUART NASH (Minister of Police): The crackdown by police on organised crime, which has been made possible by a significant increase in police numbers and a greater mandate by this Government to go hard on gun crime, is having a marked impact. I'm pleased to report that police have detected, disrupted, or attended just under a thousand firearms instances during that period; 88 percent of these instances were by members of the general public. The incidents ranged from selling ammunition without a licence to pointing a firearm at a police officer. For example, of those charged with presenting a firearm at a person, five were gang members but 29 were members of the general public. This is why we needed tougher penalties for gun crime, which that party opposed.