We all know why we're here today. It has been a long journey. The journey did not actually begin on 15 March 2019; it began on 30 June 1997. Almost 23 years ago, Judge Sir Thomas Thorp told us what was wrong with our firearms legislation. At that time, the Arms Act was already 14 years old. In 2020, the Arms Act 1983 is not only well out of date but dangerously out of date. Successive Governments failed to act on Thorp's recommendations, and what has been the cost of that failure? The National Party knows. The ACT Party knows. They know because former MP for Epsom, the former National police minister, the former leader of the ACT Party, the Hon John Banks, has told them. He said, following the terror attack last year, that the greatest disappointment of his political life was his failure to act after the mass murder at Aramoana in 1990. I refuse to be the former Minister approached by victims' families in 20 years' time and asked: "Why didn't you change the law, why didn't you take guns off gangs and bring in tougher penalties for gun crime?" These are the questions that will haunt Simon Bridges and David Seymour instead.