Gun owners would be forced to surrender their medical records when obtaining a license under a coroner's recommendation, following the self-inflicted shooting of a man with mental illness.
Requiring applicants to prove they are a "fit and proper" person would plug gaps in Victoria's current gun licensing model, Coroner Simon McGregor said in findings released on Wednesday.
It opens a new front in the jostling around gun laws following the Bondi terror attack, weeks after the Victorian government ruled out introducing a cap on the number of firearms a person can own.
Mr McGregor examined the death of a 42-year-old man, who shot himself during a domestic dispute at Lang Lang, southeast of Melbourne, in December 2024.
The man, referred to as AT, held licenses for long arms and handguns and owned five registered firearms, respectively renewed in 2022 and 2023.
