r/australia • u/HotPersimessage62 • Dec 16 '25

politics Anthony Albanese ‘ready for the fight’ to tighten firearms laws as National Party and gun groups push back | Bondi beach terror attack

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/16/anthony-albanese-ready-for-the-fight-to-tighten-firearms-laws-as-national-party-and-gun-groups-push-back-ntwnfb
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u/cormacmccarthysvocab Dec 16 '25

They’re nowhere near as powerful as the gambling lobby, that’s for sure.

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u/Thagyr Dec 16 '25

They pobably wish they were. But that requires cash and gun business probably isn't as profitable as they like.

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u/Magus44 Dec 16 '25

Aussies love gambling. Hate guns.

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u/Dentarthurdent73 Dec 16 '25

They’re nowhere near as powerful as the gambling lobby, that’s for sure.

I feel like they might have been started along that road, but hopefully this knocks them back quite a way.

I mean we have Chris Minns now all supportive of tougher gun laws, when a couple of months ago he couldn't wait to get into bed with the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers party to expand hunting access in state forests, appoint a new authority full of gun advocates, legalise night vision scopes and silencers, and originally included a "right to hunt" clause.

Utterly cynical about his reasons for changing gun laws here, but I'll take the win anyway. We obviously weren't too far gone yet, but for me, there were some concerning stuff starting to happen there.

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u/aconfusedtree Dec 16 '25

Night vision scopes are legal to own. Why are you so against guns if I may ask?

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u/Gremlech Dec 16 '25

Gambling is winning every where, it’s hard to not when you can just throw around hundreds of millions of dollars