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The Australian government has announced a gun buyback scheme in the wake of the Bondi Beach attack – its deadliest mass shooting in decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The scheme is the largest since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, which left 35 people dead and prompted Australia to introduce world-leading gun control measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fifteen people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday when two gunmen, believed to have been motivated by “Islamic State ideology”, opened fire on a Jewish festival at the country’s most iconic beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Friday, police also said there was no ongoing reason to detain a group of men who were arrested in Sydney over their “extremist Islamic ideology”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police allege Sunday’s attack, which they have declared a terrorist incident, was committed by a father-son duo. Naveed Akram, 24, has been charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder and one of committing a terrorist act. His father Sajid was killed during the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The day after the shooting, national cabinet – which includes representatives from the federal government and leaders from all states and territories – agreed to tighten gun controls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking to media on Friday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said there are now more than 4 million firearms in Australia – more than at the time of the Port Arthur massacre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We know that one of these terrorists held a firearm licence and had six guns, in spite of living in the middle of Sydney’s suburbs… There’s no reason why someone in that situation needed that many guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“If you’re going to reduce the number of guns, then a buyback scheme has to be a piece of that puzzle,” Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new scheme will purchase surplus, newly banned and illegal firearms, and will be funded on a 50-50 basis with the states and territories. Hundreds of thousands of firearms will be collected and destroyed, the government estimates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
National cabinet has also agreed to impose limits on the number of firearms held by any one individual, restrict open-ended firearms licensing and the types of guns that are legal and make Australian citizenship a condition of holding a firearm licence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Work on a national firearms register will be accelerated and firearm regulators will have better access to criminal intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Friday, New South Wales Police said they were preparing to release seven men with extremist ideology, but that they would continue to be monitored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tactical officers swarmed on the group, who had travelled from Victoria and were known to police there, in dramatic scenes in the suburb of Liverpool on Thursday. Officers found a knife, but no guns or other weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon told a press conference there is “no confirmed link” between the alleged terrorists and the detained group, but that Bondi Beach was one of several locations the latter was intending to visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Whilst this specific threat posed by the males is unknown, I can say that the potential [for] a violent offence being committed was such that we were not prepared to tolerate the risk,” Commissioner Lanyon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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