The government’s changes to protest laws face a constitutional challenge from activists who said the laws would remove the rights of “everyone in NSW to gather together as a community” and demand change.
Minns said on Tuesday he was confident the laws would withstand any legal challenge.
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A number of MPs abstained from voting on the omnibus bill. It eventually passed 18 votes to eight with the Greens’ amendment.
Police and Counter-Terrorism Minister Yasmin Catley said the legislation was about using the lessons from the Bondi terror attack to prevent mass violence before more lives are lost.
“There’s more than 1.1 million guns in NSW, and it’s well known that the [fewer] guns you have, the safer your community is,” Catley told 2GB on Wednesday.
“This is in response to an event that has taken place here, a tragedy in our community. And I think that the response has been exactly what the community would expect.”
Catley said the government would boost funding to the NSW firearms registry to enable a crackdown. NSW will also go halves with the Commonwealth to fund the buyback of firearms in the state.
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