Australian PM Announces Plan To Punish Country’s Gun Owners For ISIS-Inspired Terrorist Attack

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced plans on Friday for a mass confiscation of firearms from law-abiding gun owners in response to Sunday’s terrorist attack at Bondi Beach.

Two Pakistani migrants opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration on Dec. 14 in an attack inspired by the radical Islamic terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, killing at least 15 people and wounding 40, with one gunman being slain on the scene by police and the other being wounded. Albanese decried in a Friday release the fact that more guns were in private hands than at the time of the 1996.

“Sunday’s deadly ISIS inspired antisemitic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach highlights the need to finish the job the Howard Government started on gun reform,” Albanese claimed in the release. “We know that one of the terrorists from the weekend’s attack held a firearm licence and had six guns. There is no reason someone living in the suburbs of Sydney needed this many guns.”

“There are now more than 4 million firearms in Australia – more than at the time of the Port Arthur massacre, nearly 30 years ago,” Albanese continued.

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The new restrictions proposed by Albanese would include a limit on how many firearms a person could own, limiting firearms licenses to Australian citizens and “additional use of criminal intelligence” to determine if a license to own a firearm should be granted.