Firearms manufacturer standing for One Nation in NSW opposes post-Bondi gun laws that ban his rifles

Jeff Bacon, managing director of Oceania Precision, is campaigning to represent One Nation in New South Wales and is advocating for the repeal of gun laws enacted after the Bondi beach massacre. He argues that "every single one" of his rifles is banned in the state.

Earlier this month, Mike Newman, One Nation’s NSW leader, and federal MP Barnaby Joyce announced that Bacon would be second on the party’s upper house ticket for the March state election. The announcement was made in Tamworth, where Bacon hosted a One Nation forum on firearms legislation attended by gun lobby groups and local gun clubs.

Newman praised Bacon, stating he is "not only a firearms owner, but he is also a manufacturer and an innovator" with patents worldwide. Bacon previously ran as a candidate for the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers party in 2019 and joined the Nationals in 2023 before defecting to One Nation.

On October 3, Bacon expressed that running for parliament again "wasn’t a hard decision" but admitted he would prefer to focus on his business rather than politics. He stated, "I’m going to do everything that I can do – not only to fight for the repeal of the legislation."

In a statement, Bacon declared, "One Nation will repeal the firearms element of the Terrorism and Other Legislation Amendment Act, restoring rights to what they were when we had a functioning system before December last year, when the Minns government and the Liberal party rushed legislation through on Christmas Eve."

In December 2025, the Labor and Liberal parties changed laws to limit recreational licence holders to four firearms and primary producers to ten. They also legislated for NSW to participate in a joint buyback of weapons with the federal government, making NSW the only state to sign on to the federal scheme, which is set to begin on November 2.