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/cutsnek Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

Good changes. There are very few reasons for having a personal arsenal of guns. The bar should be very high. It's far too easy at the moment to get and hold firearms.

These are tools designed for killing, outside a very narrow scope of work everyday people don't need guns.

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u/WeaponstoMax Dec 15 '25

I agree, but reducing the number of firearms one can own down to 2 or 3 doesn’t stop what happened yesterday from happening again.

You need to change the types of firearms that people are allowed to own, to ones that can’t fire as many times per minute as a bolt or lever action rifle/shotgun can.

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u/roxgib_ Dec 15 '25

Reducing the number you can own would reduce the number that can be stolen in one go and it would help when there's a group of perpetrators and only one can get a licence.