When will this fool of a Prime Minister resign! To disarm the citizens because of two Islamist coward mass killers? Is he serious?
What a red herring to cover up incompetence!
There were 17.8 million Australians in 1994 and now about 28 million.
The Prime Minister says there are now more than 4 million firearms in Australia. What difference does the government buy back of an estimated few hundred thousand firearms make? To criminal and terrorists probably very little! But what about law abiding citizens?
"The Australian government has announced a gun buyback scheme in the wake of the Bondi Beach attack - its deadliest mass shooting in decades.
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. ...
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.
"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. ...
"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.
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. ..."
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