The Western Australian government has promised proper consultation with Indigenous firearm owners amid a 32,000-strong petition from gun owners concerned at the rapid introduction of new laws.

Liberal MLA for the Mining and Pastoral Region Neil Thomson said the new legislation would handcuff Indigenous gun owners in "needless red tape" whenever they want to shoot on their Traditional Lands, an administrative issue the Opposition highlighted as a weakness of last year's planned new Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Bill.

Under the new laws, people would need written permission from a land owner before going hunting on their property. Previously, only verbal permission was required.

The first major overhaul of WA's 50 year-old gun laws has honed in on individual weapon limits, storage requirements and an overhaul of the property letter system.

It also requires hunters get written permission from property owners before going shooting, or from the Department of Lands and Planning to hunt on vast areas of unallocated Crown land.

Indigenous hunter Kenneth Martin from Halls Creek in the East Kimberley said many Aboriginal gun owners didn't have the literacy skills to obtain written permission from land owners or the government.

"I have a small business so I am used to following due processes but some of my countrymen might not be as switched on as I am," the Kija Jaru man told The West Australian.

The new laws would make it harder to hunt spontaneously, a normal part of life in the bush, he said.

Mr Thomson said the government had not properly consulted remote communities before the Firearms Bill 2024 was passed through parliament in late June, subject to certain provisions.

"Zero effort has been made to reach out to remote communities during the consultation phase," Mr Thomson said.

"It sadly will inevitably lead to less compliance with the law, making criminals out of people who are simply hunting for food on their Traditional Lands or making them wait days or weeks to get permission to go out shooting."

The WA Land Administration Act had allowed Aboriginal people to hunt on Traditional Land, while The Wildlife Conservation Act 1950 s 23 (WA) exempts Aboriginal people from conservation laws when hunting for food on land not being a native reserve or wildlife sanctuary.

WA Police Minister Paul Papalia said the new laws would be phased in over coming years, and remote Aboriginal communities would be consulted.

"The Firearms Bill does not impact on s.211 of the Native Title Act, with hunting recognised as a genuine reason for the legal ownership of a firearm," he said.

"An Individual - Hunting Licence is being introduced to facilitate this activity.

"The regulations will set out who - additional to the land occupier - may give hunting permissions and how often they will need to be renewed.

"Indigenous people in remote areas will be part of the ongoing consultations with the Aboriginal corporations during the drafting of the regulations."

The level of consultation is another issue in Opposition's sights, with police spokesperson Peter Collier referencing a 32,000-strong petition from gun owners to encourage the WA Government to refer the Bill to the Legislative Committee.

"There are evidently a significant number of people affected by this legislation and the most effective measure to placate their concerns rests with full scrutiny of the Bill," he said.

"This will allow various firearms organisations and other concerned citizens the opportunity to express their concerns and identify the aspects of the Bill requiring amendment.

"After the debacle of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Bill, the Labor government promised that they were going to be a more 'humble government' and they were going to listen to the concerns of the community.

"Well, they now have a real opportunity to be true to this commitment."

The petition was the biggest in WA history and the only one to exceed 30,000 signatures, the Opposition said.