Table of Contents

1). Introduction of Firearms regulation

The present analysis mainly deals with the importance of a number of people that are getting influence from the modification and new implementations in the firearm regulatory. The analysis includes the factors that access the project many times. The importance of stakeholder in the management decisions and implementation of the new and old strategies is also considered in the analysis. The report is mainly based on the case study regarding the firearm depository and how the decisions taken in the industry can positively induce impact on the performance of the project and the role of stakeholders in the project. In the present case, the firearms are used by the general public in the New South Wales of Australia. The regulations are implemented and modified under the Firearms act 1996 (NSW) and the Firearms regulation 2017 (NSW regulations). The case is related to the license holder stakeholders and registered firearms in New South Wales of Australia.

2). Explanation of the Firearms regulation

The case study is related to the general public of New South Wales of Australia and licence holders of firearms. The act and regulations are reflected under the national firearms agreement of Australia. The agreement defines the Minimum requirements for the regulations of firearms and to recognize the public safety act. In this active privileging conditions are considered for the firearm registry and responsible administration. The responsible and related third party included in the case are approved clubs, shooting ranges, and firearm dealers. All these mentioned parties are included in administration and responsibilities of act and regulations. The analysis considered role of registry included administration, license conditions licence suspensions and revocations, initiating the seizure of firearms, assessing permits to acquire firearms, administering the good reason test, maintaining the register of firearms, and approving alternative safe storage arrangements. The report supports all the acts and regulations under the license holder configuration. The audit is assessed for the registry administration. The reliable databases support the licensing of firearms and registration schemes of firearms. The case is not relevant to analyze the actions of Administration but it mainly deals with the part of police officers who do not have any link with the firearm registry process. The case identifies different gaps related to registry administration for the previously existing license holders, and an effective risk-base approach is also considered for regulating a firearm ownership approach. The case identified increased risk associated with the registry making process and administration decisions related to ownership of the firearm. There is a sufficient gap between the appropriate policy and guidance required for the administrative decisions. In this review, critical decisions are also considered that induced impact on the Revocations and license suspensions, assessing good reasons that are sufficient to acquire firearms and different types of enforcement actions. The Conclusion and recommendations of this case analysis are based upon the provision of the act that is provided by the New South Wales Police Force and registry of firearms. According to the case, different stakeholders are under the obligation to undertake the actions according to the act and regulations of New South Wales Australia.

3). Project Issue of Firearms regulation
Current issues and problems of Firearms regulation

All the stakeholders identified in the case study are engaged with the internal and external Management process. The genuine reasons for the firearm license include recreational hunting, sports, Target Shooting, business or employment, animal welfare, firearm collection, primary production, and Animal control. Besides these reasons, in case of having a firearm, the owner must mention the prime cause to the registry. The issuing permits required license holders to mention the good reason for acquiring their firearms. To maintain the fire Army register, it requires the detail of firearm including serial number, license holder details including name address and premises of keeping firearm, data associated with the firearm owner, supplier name and identification number of the spare barrel for the firearm. The third-party approved by the registry include firearm dealer, shooting ranges, safety and training programs and hunting clubs. The license holder must update all the changes in the status of public and police safety. The registry process ensures the quick and latest strategy of updating the register as well as the information of the owner. The administration of rules and regulations associated with display base inspections deal with the requirements of license holders. The prime objective of the registry's risk-based storage inspection program is to implement an efficient data storage process that can be accessed anytime.

Issues mentioned in the case study of Firearms regulation

The key findings of the case analysis include address details of the registered that are not updated with the time limits. Sometimes the address details of the register are outdated, and it is not possible to assess the owner of a firearm. Due to the change of address, it is not possible to send notifications of license renewal and to extend the date of license for the owner of a firearm. The registry is responsible for updating the data continuously after receiving information about the owners of firearms. Sometimes in case of potential crime and anti-social behavior the police department directory contact registry process to identify the owner of the firearm. New South Wales has introduced the Police’s Computerised Operational Policing System (COPS) that identifies the owner of the firearm and revoking licenses. In case of any change in the ownership and address of the owner, it must be informed to the registry within the 7 days of sales transactions. It is the responsibility of the registry to keep update the database but the registration process does not ensure sound as well as consistent decisions regarding the suspension of license and ownership information. The act and regulation include a wide range of discrepancies; therefore, it is concluded that the registry does not have sufficient policies to review the quality of a database. If the data is not updated within the time the validity of data reduces; therefore, the registry is not in a position to ensure that the data collected at the information is accurate. In the case of criminal accidents, the register is not able to provide a valid database and address of the owner of the firearm. The outdated technology used in the registry increases the risk for NSW Police Force policies to mitigate this risk. The affected is a stakeholder in this condition is the police department and citizens of New South Wales. The objective of the case study is to introduce a well-designed program with a scheduled updating process of the database so the information required by local police can be assessed with higher validity and accuracy. The lack of performance-based indicators in the registry is causing issues in formatting the application and process of license. The project requires to establish a well-defined initial model that can access regulations and act of registry to improve. The lack of contact of the registry with the firearm owner is a problem that needs to be noticed. The registry is quite seniors and they are doing its network to overcome the issue and to improve the system. With the implementation of the new model, the cascade of miscommunication, as well as gaps between the information of firearm owner and registry, can be addressed. For this purpose, the stakeholder management plan has been designed in the present report. The management plans involve different steps that are mentioned below,

4). Project Stakeholder Management’s Plan
Stakeholder identification of Firearms regulation

The stakeholders are capable of having positive as well as the negative impact on the deliverables of the model. The huge impact is on the project process and decision-making system that can improve the updating process of the database. In order to improve the integrity of the database managed by the registrar, the police force of New South Wales must take initiatives. The stakeholders identified in the initial model are the police of New South Wales, owner of firearms, registry, firearms dealers, safety and training course providers, instructors of firearms, hunting, shooting and collectors clubs and security guards of New south wales (Webster & Vernick, 2013).

Stakeholder analysis of Firearms regulation

The grid descriptive system is identified as a valuable technique to identify and analyses stakeholders in different dimensions. All the stakeholders identified in the case study are considered on the basis of their role in the case, such as registry that collects information about the owner of the firearm and updates the database regarding their license and addresses. Police require the database to identify the involvement of the firearm owner in any criminal activity (Hemenway, 2006). Sometimes the criminals get training from the shooters and training programs; therefore, it is important to analyses all the shooters and training programs in the database. Firearm dealers are often involved in the crimes there for updating the database to analyses the location of dealers and to assess them is also important. The security guards in different companies have firearms that are licensed, and sometimes their license is expired. The present mapping Technology will access all these stakeholders and identify the required to be implemented on these stakeholders (Deckert & Sarre, 2017).

Stakeholder	Interest	Priority	Power	Risk
Registry	Improve the tracking system under the act	High	10	The updating system of the database for the ease of access
The police force of New South Wales	Identify and to verify the criminal records	High	8	The outdated database can mislead
Owner of firearms	Provide latest and accurate information	Medium	5	In case of inaccurate information can face legal notification
Firearms dealers	Update the address and have licensed firearms	Low	4	Outdated licensed firearms can be involved in criminal actions and activities
Safety and training course providers, instructors	They have capital interest in the local community and people learn to use the firearm	High	6	Can teach criminal activities to the learners
Hunting, shooting and collectors clubs	They teach how to shoot and hunting	Low	4	Provide personal information and usage information
Security guards	They use firearms for the positive purpose of security	Low	3	They are not facing any big issue in the development programs

 5). Stakeholder engagement of Firearms regulation

In order to establish as well as maintain the data storage process a simple model is defined with following key attributes (Boutwell & Klare, 2000).

Identification of stakeholders of Firearms regulation

            In this process the lifecycle repeats to identify the stakeholders that have licence to firearms and those who are required to update their address. Different information about the Firearm owner and address will be identified and their stage.

Analysis of stakeholder of Firearms regulation

The process of analyzing the stakeholder will repeat different classification of stakeholders set as police department and security guard in New South Wales of Australia (Ludwig & Cook, 2004).

Analysis of the stakeholders

All the stakeholders identified in the case are subjected to the analysis. In the analysis stage information about all the owners of firearm will be assessed and updated.  In case of lack of sufficient information notification will be delivered to the owner on the previous and new address (Carter, 2012).

Stakeholders associated with the firearm case

All the identified stakeholders will be classified on the basis of their priority as mentioned in the table. The process will improve communication between stakeholders and registry.

Act and regulations of Firearms regulation

The act and regulations included in the analysis are Firearms Act 1996 (NSW) (the Act) and the Firearms Regulation 2017 (NSW) (Regulation) (Wilson, 2007).

Stakeholder monitor of Firearms regulation

Stakeholder monitoring process can be further subdivided into three parts including inputs, Tools and techniques, and outputs.  Input is the stakeholder and owners of firearms in New South Wales Australia. Tools and techniques are the strategies used for the maintenance of database in registry. These techniques are required to update the validation process and to improve the database validity.  Output is process used to record and to keep tracking of stakeholder information by using Different techniques such as networks, sending notifications to the owner, general updating process, and meetings. It is important to have a critical analysis of the inconsistent administrative decisions. Because of lack of appropriate policies and guidance the validity and accuracy of database collected about the information of fire are owners is not valid and accurate at this point.  The Commissioner of Police respond to this report and indicated that all the information and strategies based on the recommendations are required to be modified. The present report acknowledges the requirement of Technology applications that can induce impact on the actions according to the rules and regulations. Police’s Computerized Operational Policing System (COPS) require the database that is updated on daily basis. The auditor technology is required to be replaced with the latest technology. The registry is required to consider different initiative steps and models. In order to improve the data accuracy,   they require usage of computers, trained and well organized staff members, and to conduct audit by NSW Police Force policies to mitigate this risk.

6). Conclusion of Firearms regulation

The aim of present report was to access various Data integrity reports that are available for the registry of firearms in New South Wales Australia. The report has analyzed blockage in actions and storage of information.  On the basis of data analyzed the operational procedures are considered for day-by-day transactions, shortcomings of the process, guidance and policies.   Four key areas are considered in the analysis to retrieve the information such as getting information within the six month statuary period about the owner of firearm, introduction of enforcement actions against the license holders associated with non-compliances and greeting in the information, obligations of the members to inform the storage in pistol clubs. The report accesses effective management of performance and operations regarding fire arm registration scheme and licensing.