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Mental health checks for WA's gun owners to become mandatory under changes to firearms laws

Anyone buying a gun in Western Australia will have to undergo mandatory and ongoing mental health checks, as part of a complete overhaul of the state's 50-year-old firearms legislation.

The changes are designed to create some of the toughest gun laws in the country.

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