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Australia Announces National Gun Buyback After Bondi Terror Attack

Authorities say evidence points to ISIS inspiration.

Influencer Zachery Dereniowski gives a check of 2,533,585 dollars to Ahmed al Ahmed, the bystander who is hailed as the "Bondi hero" after he charged at one of the gunmen and seized his rifle during the deadly shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia in this screengrab taken from social media video released December 19, 2025. @mdmotivator via TikTok/via REUTERS
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In this aerial view, members of the Bondi community paddle and swim into the ocean and form a circle to pay respect to the victims, survivors and first responders of the December 14th Bondi Shootings on December 19, in Sydney, Australia.

Overview

  • Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveiled a nationwide gun buyback and plans to tighten firearms rules, citing more than four million guns in circulation.
  • The package includes limits on how many guns a person can own, a citizenship requirement for licences, and faster work on a national firearms register.
  • Naveed Akram, 24, remains under guard after being charged with 59 offences including 15 counts of murder and terrorism-related crimes.
  • Police detained seven men in Sydney’s southwest after a tip about a possible violent act, found a knife but no guns, and reported no confirmed link to the Bondi attackers.
  • Hundreds paddled out at Bondi for tributes as funerals continued and Sunday was set as a day of reflection, while investigators examine the pair’s November travel to the Philippines and note ISIS channels praised the attack without a formal claim.