Government establishes new national gun amnesty to rid community of illegal firearms

The increased threat of terrorism and a flood of illegal guns into the community leads the Government to establish a national gun amnesty.

Justice Minister Michael Keenan will today announce the details of the three-month amnesty running from July 1.

The amnesty begins amid growing debate about national security, and how people such as Lindt Cafe siege gunman Man Haron Monis got access to weapons.

“Clearly the fact [is] we’ve got a deteriorating national security environment, we’ve got an environment where there has been five terrorists attacks on our soil and sadly in the vast majority of those cases it has been an illegal firearm that’s been used,” Mr Keenan told the ABC.

“Clearly that makes this top of mind and why we want to make sure we can clear as many illegal firearms from the community as possible.”

‘No questions asked, no repercussions’

Source: Government establishes new national gun amnesty to rid community of illegal firearms – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)