Taking aim at 'lenient' firearm laws NEW gun laws which passed through Federal Parliament last night have already been slammed as not being tough enough. Under the legislation, a new offence - called aggravated trafficking - carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment for those who smuggle at least 50 firearms over a six-month period. This is about two guns a week. Premier Barry O'Farrell criticised the new laws as too lenient. He said the threshold should be much lower. The maximum number of guns involved in prosecutions for the sale of firearms in NSW since 2008 is 25, with the average seven. And they were mostly sold over a 12-month period. "Unless the threshold for aggravated offences is set at a substantially lower level than 50 firearms, the provisions may not result in any prosecutions," a spokesman for the Premier said. Under the changes passed last night, police will also get new powers to force criminals to prove their unexplained wealth was obtained legally. The new laws come as NSW Police yesterday intercepted a package containing two handguns which had been mailed from Queensland to a business in Moorebank. The package - containing a .357 Magnum revolver with six rounds, a C2 semi-automatic 9mm pistol and 15 grams of methamphetamine - was detected at a courier company in Olympic Park. Police arrested two people.The day before, a family was terrorised by three men wielding guns and a shot was fired during a home invasion in Malabar - the sixth reported armed robbery in NSW in five days. There have been 189 shootings in NSW since Mr O'Farrell was elected premier. Justice Minister Jason Clare last night said the federal reforms were designed to tackle the illegal firearms market "from every angle." "The bill also gives police more powers to seize the money and assets of criminals," he said. Just like with Al Capone you catch criminals by following the money. We need to drop the politics and work together. If we work together we can give the police the power to break these gangs and seize the cash, cars and houses of these crooks.