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

Jeff Bacon, managing director of Oceania Precision, has been described by the NSW party’s leader as ‘my go-to man on the firearms industry’

A firearms manufacturer hoping to represent One Nation in New South Wales wants to repeal gun laws introduced following the Bondi beach massacre, after arguing “every single one” of the rifles he produces was banned in the state.

Earlier this month, One Nation’s NSW leader, Mike Newman, and the federal MP Barnaby Joyce revealed Jeff Bacon would be second on the party’s upper house ticket in the March state election.

Bacon is the managing director of Oceania Precision, a weapons manufacturer based in Tamworth.

The announcement of his candidacy was made in Tamworth before Bacon hosted a One Nation forum on firearms legislation attended by gun lobby groups and local gun clubs, as well as Newman and Joyce.

Newman said Bacon was “not only a firearms owner, but he is also a manufacturer and also he is an innovator” with “patents across the world”. He said Bacon would be “my go-to man on the firearms industry”.

Bacon ran as the lower house candidate for Tamworth with the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party in 2019. He joined the Nationals in 2023 before defecting to One Nation .

On 3 October this year, he said in Tamworth that running for parliament again “wasn’t a hard decision”.

“To be honest I’d rather continue in my business than be in some way forced to step into politics,” he said.

“[But] I’m going to do everything that I can do – not only to fight for the repeal of the legislation.”

In a statement at the time, Bacon said: “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, Labor and the Liberals changed the law to limit recreational license-holders to four firearms and primary producers to 10, and legislated for NSW to participate in a joint buyback of weapons with the federal government. NSW is the only state to sign on to the federal scheme so far. It’s due to begin on 2 November.

The NSW parliament also voted to recategorise weapons including straight-pull and lever-release rifles meaning recreational hunters will no longer be able to own them.

One of the alleged Bondi shooters, Indian national Sajid Akram, owned six weapons on a recreational hunting licence, including straight-pull rifles allegedly used during the antisemitic attack on 14 December that killed 15 people during Hanukah celebrations.