Our Most Powerful Tool: Direct Messages to Politicians

The most effective thing any individual can do right now is to contact elected officials directly.

That means:

• Emails
• Online contact forms
• Letters

Short messages are best.

Politicians and their staff do not read long essays. What they track is:

• Volume
• Consistency
• Sentiment

Thousands of calm, consistent messages do get noticed.

What Your Message Should Say (Keep It Simple)

Your message does not need to be clever or detailed.

It just needs to be clear and consistent.

Use your own words. Politicians’ inboxes are routinely filtered to ignore copy-and-paste emails. Writing it yourself makes it unique and more likely to be counted.

Your message should be along these lines:

• I support legal firearm ownership
• I do not support further restrictions on law-abiding people
• Australia already has strong gun laws
• The focus should be on enforcing existing laws, not adding more
• Terrorism and criminal violence should be punished — not compliant citizens
• As my elected representative, I expect you to represent me

That’s it.

One or two short paragraphs is enough.

Be Calm. Be Factual. Be Respectful.

Anger, insults, or threats hurt the cause.

Calm, factual messages from ordinary Australians are far more powerful — especially when sent in large numbers.

Consistency matters more than wording.

Petitions You Can Sign and Share

NSW is the next front of this fight. The NSW parliament is sitting on the 22/23/24 Dec to make decisions on these matters – we need to be heard by them NOW, so if you live, or hunt (or support hunting) in NSW – you should complete these.
Pro-tip – when they ask for a post code – use the NSW post code for where you live/hunt/visit. NSW politicians don’t care about Victorian post codes!

Several petitions are currently active. Our primary petition has received so much traffic that it has experienced outages, which is a strong sign of engagement.

Main Petition (Share Far and Wide)

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1GcmaFB2rd/

In addition, two NSW Parliamentary petitions are open and active. Please sign and share both:

NSW Legislative Council Petition

https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lc/pages/epetition-details.aspx?q=tl4HuHzz1G_qiXm-4Vm6xw

NSW Legislative Assembly Petition

https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/la/Pages/ePetition-details.aspx?q=vIXRT1jpe3su04gChoZaZQ

Petitions matter because they:

• Create an official parliamentary record
• Trigger formal responses
• Reinforce the volume of concern already landing in politicians’ inboxes

The Bottom Line

• FGA is advocating — but member voices multiply the impact
• Short, calm messages work
• Volume and consistency matter
• Enforce existing laws — don’t punish the compliant
• Sign and share the petitions

If you take one action this year, make it this one.