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Firearms Licences

418 Mr ODENWALDER (Elizabeth) (17 October 2018). Can the minister provide the number of current firearms licence holders in regional South Australia and metropolitan Adelaide as at 31 September 2018?

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD (Gibson—Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing):

South Australia Police can advise that as of 24 October 2018, there were 64,648 firearm licence holders in South Australia.

24,621 recorded as residing in metropolitan South Australia;

39,922 recorded as residing in regional South Australia; and

105 not defined as either regional or metropolitan (interstate).