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Australia to expand gun buyback to Canberra after Bondi attack
The plan will start in New South Wales on November 2, with Canberra’s timing for its buyback still not specified.
Australia’s capital territory, the Australian Capital Territory, will join a national gun buyback effort in the wake of a Bondi Beach shooting that killed 15 at a Jewish festival, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, according to Reuters via SCMP Economy.
Albanese said his centre-left government enacted laws in January that pair the buyback with tighter checks for gun licences and a crackdown on hate following the December 14 attack in Sydney.
New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, became the first jurisdiction to commit to the plan, which is set to launch on November 2. The Australian Capital Territory has agreed to a similar scheme to help ensure that an antisemitic attack like Bondi cannot happen again, Albanese said.
The article said the ACT has about 23,000 guns and more than 7,000 firearms licence holders, and it did not provide a start date for the ACT buyback. Albanese’s office did not immediately respond to a request for details.