Albanese: Canberra to join Australia’s gun buy-back program after Bondi attack

Australia’s capital will join a gun buy-back ⁠as part of ⁠a response to a ⁠shooting spree that killed 15 at a Jewish festival in Sydney, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday. Albanese’s centre-left government enacted laws in January for the gun buy-back, tighter checks for gun ‌licences and a crackdown on h

Australia's capital will join a gun buyback as part of a response to a shooting spree that killed 15 at a Jewish festival in Sydney, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said today.

⁠Australia's most populous state, NSW, was the first to commit to the plan

The Australian Capital Territory has 23,000 guns and more than 7,000 firearms licence holders, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.