Australian PM announces plan to buy guns from public after Bondi attack
Posted on: Dec 19, 2025 19:36 IST | Posted by: Rt
The aussie authorities has proclaimed plans for a subject gun buyback followers last week’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney. The scheme is expected to take hundreds of thousands of weapons out of circulation, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday.
The Bondi Beach shooting left at least 15 people dead, and more than two dozen injured. The attackers, who allegedly pledged allegiance to the terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), targeted a Hanukkah celebration organized by the local Jewish community.
Police said one of the shooters had held a firearms license and legally owned six registered guns, all of which were recovered from the scene.
Albanese has made domestic gun policy a central focus of the government’s response. On Monday, Australia’s state and territory leaders agreed to pursue tougher national firearms rules.
Measures under discussion include accelerating the rollout of a national firearms register, limiting the number of guns an individual can own, making Australian citizenship a requirement for a gun license, and further restricting the types of weapons permitted. The government will need to pass legislation through parliament to fund the proposed buyback scheme.
The program is expected to be similar to the one enacted in 1996 in response to the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, which left 35 people dead. That program ran for one year and resulted in the destruction of roughly 650,000 firearms. Under the new scheme, owners who surrender firearms will be compensated.
According to research organization The Australia Institute, civilian gun ownership has since climbed to more than four million firearms nationwide, around 25% higher than in 1996, or roughly one gun for every seven Australians.
Similar efforts elsewhere have faced challenges. In New Zealand’s 2019 gun buyback, launched in response to the Christchurch mosque shootings in which an Australian white supremacist killed 51 people, the scheme’s online notification platform was temporarily taken offline when a vulnerability was discovered that may have exposed the personal data of thousands of law-abiding gun owners.
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