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Anthony Albanese has just been speaking alongside the New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, about the state’s gun buyback scheme agreed in response to the Bondi terror attack.
The prime minister said:
Australians are quite rightly proud of our gun laws but the fact is there are more guns in Australia today than there were at the time of dealing with the Port Arthur gun buyback that occurred under the Howard government.
These arrangements are available to every state and territory, and this reform comes on top of previous reforms that have been undertaken by my government in partnership with states and territories in particular the first ever development of a national firearms register.
In some ways, I feel that you should give them their money now, and let them help them with the cost of living.
It is their money; they’ve they’ve sacrificed it in lieu of pay. So, in a lot of cases, people want it.
