{"id":44061,"date":"2025-12-15T12:38:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=44061"},"modified":"2025-12-15T12:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:38:41","slug":"australian-prime-minister-proposes-tougher-national-gun-laws-after-mass-shooting-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=44061","title":{"rendered":"<h1>Australian prime minister proposes tougher national gun laws after mass shooting in Sydney<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content--body-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"article-authors\">\n<div class=\"article-byline js-dropdown-menu\">\n<div class=\"article-byline--details-header\">\n<h4 class=\"article-byline--details-author\"><a class=\"article-byline--details-author-name\">By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY, ROD MCGUIRK and KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-content--body-inner\">\n<h3 class=\"article-content--body-text\"><strong class=\"dateline\">SYDNEY, NSW \u2014<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday proposed tougher national gun laws after a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/australia-shooting-sydney-bondi-beach-31f711f09f677d0f88091ece25f651c1\" rel=\"nofollow\">mass shooting<\/a>\u00a0targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/australia-bondo-beach-mass-shooting-8eb371bc30bae73fbee34f005ca0cafb\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bondi Beach<\/a>, leaving at least 15 people dead.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese said he would propose new restrictions, including limiting the number of guns a licensed owner can obtain. His proposals were announced after the authorities revealed that the older of the two gunmen \u2014 who were a father and son \u2014 had held a gun license for a decade and amassed his six guns legally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government is prepared to take whatever action is necessary. Included in that is the need for tougher gun laws,\u201d Albanese told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople\u2019s circumstances can change. People can be radicalized over a period of time. Licenses should not be in perpetuity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>At least 38 people were being treated in hospitals after the massacre on Sunday, when the two shooters fired indiscriminately on the beachfront festivities. Those killed included a 10-year-old girl, a rabbi and a Holocaust survivor.<\/p>\n<h4>Australia has gun laws meant to prevent mass attacks<\/h4>\n<p>The horror at Australia\u2019s most popular beach was the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/australia-mass-shootings-timeline-ec4e4bc618d587caec42741fbd93fdde\" rel=\"nofollow\">deadliest shooting in almost three decades<\/a>\u00a0in a country with strict gun control laws primarily aimed at removing rapid-fire rifles from circulation. Albanese called the massacre an act of antisemitic terrorism that struck at the heart of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>He pledged swift change, planning on Monday afternoon to present his gun law proposals to a national cabinet meeting that includes state leaders. Some of the measures would also require state legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome laws are commonwealth and some laws are implemented by the states,&#8221; the Australian leader said. \u201cWhat we want to do is to make sure that we\u2019re all completely on the same page.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Minns, premier of New South Wales where Sydney is the state capital, agreed with Albanese that gun licenses should not be granted in perpetuity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/australian-prime-minister-gun-laws-mass-shooting-sydney\/69723630\">https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/australian-prime-minister-gun-laws-mass-shooting-sydney\/69723630<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}