The video has been described as "a bit of harmless fun". Credit:YouTube screengrab Other videos feature teddy bears with towels taped to their heads and fake explosive belts strapped around them being shot or blown up. In one video, a teddy bear wearing a fake explosive belt and a black cloth that leaves only its eyes visible - an apparent reference to Muslim women who wear the niqab - explodes into flames after being shot. Another shows a character with a headscarf with a voiceover that says: "This one here doesn't look very old." When the character is shot, the shooter says "Boy, those young ones go off."

Most of the videos on the channel review different types of firearms. In a letter to NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione, first reported by The Guardian website, Greens MP David Shoebridge has urged police to consider withdrawing the gun licences of the people involved with the videos. He has asked Mr Scipione to refer the matter to his Queensland counterpart. "In these videos we see the use of real firearms, sometimes coupled with butane cartridges to shoot characters meant to represent Muslim men, women and children," Mr Shoebridge told Fairfax Media. "These videos are deliberately posted as political propaganda, advancing arguments against gun control, and as such they warrant serious scrutiny." However, Marty Phillips of Shooting Stuff Australia said the videos were meant as a joke and did not attempt to incite violence against any person or group.

"They're basically stuffed teddy bears dressed up as terrorists. We don't mention the word Islam or Muslim or Muhammad or anything like that," he said. "And as everyone has told us, Islam has nothing to do with terror, so we're just shooting terrorists." He said he and his friend Aaron had set up the YouTube channel about a year ago, and had become bored shooting at pieces of paper. He denied having any prejudices against people from the Middle East. "I know a number of Muslims myself and they're all pretty decent guys, other than not wanting to drink beer or eat bacon," he said. "I have a problem with ISIS and the Taliban like everybody else. But Muslims in general? No, not at all."

Mr Shoebridge has called for firearms laws to be amended to allow gun licences to be cancelled immediately and weapons to be surrendered "when a shooter has displayed aggressive racial, religious, gender or political prejudice associated with their use of firearms". Current Queensland licensing laws require gun holders meet a "fit and proper" test which considers whether there is any information that indicates the person is a risk to public safety or that authorising the person to possess a weapon would be contrary to the public interest. "Given the nature of the conduct there are questions as to whether the firearms licence holders involved could be considered to be of good character as per the firearms licensing requirements," Mr Shoebridge wrote in the letter. Mr Shoebridge's office sent Fairfax Media images of a series of tweets posted by a Twitter account named Shooting Stuff Australia, using the handle @ShootingStuffAu, between December 2015 and July this year. One tweet refers to "sand n------", another calls Mr Shoebridge a "gutless faggot" and a third includes the text "F--- every single Muslim on planet Earth! And f--- you if you disagree!"

Mr Phillips said Shooting Stuff Australia had never had a Twitter account and the person had used its name and logo without permission. He said Shooting Stuff Australia had asked the person to delete the account or face legal action. "The views expressed within them [the tweets] are not the views of Shooting Stuff Australia," he said. "We do not condone racism and hatred against fellow Australians, regardless of their creed, ethnicity or political beliefs." Asked if the videos of the Greens logo being shot multiple times could be seen as advocating political violence, Mr Phillips replied that the word "Greens" was never spoken in the videos. "We just publicly shot at their logo," he said.