"Right now, there are more guns in Australia than there were during Port Arthur. We can't allow that to continue, Albanese told a news conference on Friday, adding that there are currently more than four million firearms in the country. Non-citizens have no need to own a gun. And someone in suburban Sydney has no need to own six The terrible events of Bondi show we need to get more guns off our streets, he said."
"Aided by some of the toughest gun restrictions globally, Australia has one of the lowest gun homicide rates in the world. Restrictions were tightened after a lone gunman, armed with semiautomatic weapons, killed 35 people at the Port Arthur tourist site almost 30 years ago. The massacre shocked the country, with authorities soon after launching a major gun amnesty and buyback scheme that removed more than 650,000 newly-prohibited firearms from circulation."
Australia will launch a national gun buyback scheme to purchase surplus, newly-banned and illegal firearms following the Bondi Beach mass shooting. State and territory authorities will collect surrendered weapons and process payments, while federal police will destroy confiscated firearms. The program expects to collect and destroy hundreds of thousands of guns. There are currently more than four million firearms in Australia, exceeding levels at the time of the Port Arthur massacre nearly 30 years ago. Previously tightened restrictions and a 1996 buyback removed over 650,000 newly-prohibited firearms. The move follows a deadly attack at Bondi Beach that killed 15 people.
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