Australian Shooters Alliance

As announced in 2024, SSAA Queensland established the Australian Shooters Alliance (ASA), a national entity responsible for publishing the Australia-wide The Report magazine and serving as a vehicle to lobby and engage national lawmakers and international groups. Discussions have been held with shooting organisations in New Zealand and the USA and ASA representatives have visited Canberra and Federal Parliament on several occasions.

ASA has also been accepted by the Australian Attorney-General’s Department as a stakeholder on the National Firearms Register (NFR) Program. The Attorney General’s Firearms Reforms and Permissions Director Vanessa Paterson said, “Working collaboratively with organisations such as the ASA will be essential to ensure the successful implementation of the NFR.

“The department will engage with the ASA to seek input on key elements of the NFR. The ASA’s ongoing input will be valuable to ensure the NFR achieves mutually beneficial outcomes and improvements to firearms registries that are appropriate for firearms users…” ASA is a conglomerate of hunting, shooting and industry members and organisations and like the Australian firearms industry peak group, the Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia (SIFA), involvement is by invitation only. All financial members of SSAA Queensland are automatically represented by the ASA, which already boasts members and affiliates from across multiple Australian states.

The concept of a new national ‘alliance’ dedicated to promoting and securing the future of the shooting sports and hunting in Australia came about when SSAA Queensland took over its membership processing and activated its own public liability. The difference between other start-up shooting organisations and lobby groups is that the ASA has the staffing and financial backing of SSAA Queensland. With the financial stability and multiple real estate assets, the ASA’s future has been forged in steel and is destined to be an unbreakable player in the world of shooting.