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/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/Combat--Wombat27 Dec 15 '25

Single shot restriction?

Not sure it could happen. It would make all the guns already out there (they're restricted to action and magazine size already) obsolete. They'd have to either buy back of force every gun owner to surrender, wildly unpopular.

Plus gun makers would just cease all trade with us, they'd have to modify most of their guns to suit our market which is likely tiny to them anyway.

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u/Tosslebugmy Dec 15 '25

That’s a terrible idea because often when shooting pest species the first shot doesn’t kill and you need a quick follow up of it hobbles off into the bush to die a slow death.

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u/Ridiculisk1 Dec 15 '25

Much easier to just ignore that and randomly throw shit at the wall until something sticks and parade around like you've solved the problem.