SYDNEY: Australia will use a sweeping buyback scheme to “get guns off our streets,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Friday as hundreds plunged into the ocean to honor Bondi Beach shooting victims. Sajid Akram and his son Naveed are accused of opening fire on a Jewish festival at the famed surf beach on Sunday, killing 15 people in one of Australia’s deadliest mass shootings. Albanese vowed to toughen laws that allowed 50-year-old Sajid to own six high-powered rifles. “There is no reason someone living in the suburbs of Sydney needed this many guns,” he said.

Australia is known for having some of the world's strictest firearms legislation, but the attack at Bondi Beach, which killed 15 members of the local Jewish community, has exposed…

The news arrives as funerals begin for the victims of Australia's deadliest hate-fueled massacre of modern times.

Fifty-nine charges are being introduced after the deadly shooting that also wounded dozens of others.

Measures include fresh penalties for 'those who spread hate' as well as new powers to cancel or refuse visas.

It is the largest scheme since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, which prompted massive gun law reform.

Prime minister announces first firearm buyback since since Port Arthur massacre, and designates Sunday a national day of reflection in honour of Hanukah shooting victims

Albanese said Australia has more guns now than 30 years ago, when the country's deadliest-ever mass shooting took place.

Prime minister says tighter firearms laws are needed as police lift crime scene and mourners honour 15 victims

SYDNEY: Australia will use a sweeping buyback scheme to “get guns off our streets,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Friday as hundreds plunged into the ocean to honor Bondi…

Australia moved Friday to tighten gun laws and launch its largest firearms buyback in nearly three decades as the nation grappled with grief, anger and...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday announced a national gun buyback program to remove surplus, newly banned and illegal firearms from the country in the wake of…

SYDNEY: Australia held a day of reflection on Sunday to honor those killed and wounded in a mass shooting that targeted a seaside Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach a…

Seven days after a mass shooting devastated Bondi Beach, Australians gathered on Sunday for a national day of reflection.

SYDNEY: Australia’s New South Wales state parliament was recalled on Monday to vote on proposed new laws that would impose major curbs on firearm ownership, ban the display of…