Australian gun owners will be offered cash for their firearms in the nation's largest buyback in nearly 30 years. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese...

Australia will use a sweeping buyback scheme to "get guns off our streets", Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, as hundreds plunged into the ocean to honour Bondi Beach shooting victims.

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

Under the scheme, Australia would pay gun owners to surrender “surplus, newly banned and illegal firearms”.

Australia will launch a national gun buyback scheme following the mass shooting in Sydney, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday, as hundreds of surfers and swimmers paddled out at ‌Bondi beach to honor victims. The buyback would be similar to gun reforms introduced soon after the massacre in 1996…

Australia announces a national gun buyback after the Bondi Beach massacre, honoring victims with community support and remembrance.

The program is expected to take hundreds of thousands of firearms out of circulation, the prime minister said on Friday.

The Australian prime minister has announced the introduction of the gun “buyback” plan in the wake of Bondi beach mass shooting that left 15 people killed and dozens others injured....

Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday proposed a national gun buyback program to remove surplus, newly banned and illegal firearms from the country in the wake of one of the country's deadliest shootings.

Community leaders described the show of solidarity as deeply moving.