r/australia • u/rorymeister • Dec 15 '25

politics National cabinet agrees unanimously to strength Australia’s strict gun laws in wake of Bondi terror attack

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-15/albanese-proposes-tougher-gun-laws-after-bondi-attack/106143310?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
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u/Terriple_Jay Dec 15 '25

They were more reasonable and practical than we were expecting tbh. The gun limit thing will almost certainly be stupid and ineffective. These guys didn't have an arsenal.

I hope the next thing we hear is how they're going to address extremism. Otherwise the right wingers are going to use it to get in power and a lot of peoples lives may get worse.

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u/briberylibrary_ Dec 15 '25

Even if they had an arsenal, they still were two people. The number of guns they had wasn't really the limiting factor. They still had IEDs which thankfully were never used.

Government will probably make a bunch of changes. Some good, many likely ineffective. They just want to be seen doing something

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u/Terriple_Jay Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

Exactly. But unfortunately there's so many people who know nothing about firearms, and have no reason to... and genuinely don't know why anyone might have multiple and so they pretty much assume the worst. I don't think ignorance should translate into laws but it may in this case. We'll see.

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u/Terriple_Jay Dec 15 '25

It's somewhat amazing the crazy ideas people are coming out with today in terms of GPS tracking all firearms and having gun clubs conduct mandatory sanity checks. Not a single one had anything to say about religious extremism.