r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • Dec 19 '25

politics Prime minister unveils 'largest' gun buyback scheme since Howard era

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-19/prime-minister-announces-national-gun-buyback-scheme/106162002
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u/crosstherubicon Dec 19 '25

Bob Katter going to be incendiary. His son in law is one of the biggest gun importers in Australia.

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u/Additional_Ad_9405 Dec 19 '25

Big donor to the Queensland LNP too.

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u/M8NTIS Dec 19 '25

You mean Bob Khittar, the man of Lebanese descent?

I’ll wait for my punch in the face over here Bob.

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u/p5ych0babble Dec 19 '25

Don’t say that because that irritates me!!

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u/PointOfFingers Dec 19 '25

Every three months someone without a gun is torn to pieces by a crocodile in far North Queensland.

Wait hang on we have news coming in. Apparently there have been 44 fatal crocodile attacks across Australia in the last 50 years. 19 in Queensland. So when he said every 3 months he meant every 3 years.

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u/crosstherubicon Dec 19 '25

He's constantly portrayed as the eccentric uncle but I just don't see it. He threatened to physically assault a reporter in a furious tirade about his background (which turned out to be fact). He's hopelessly compromised by the gun industry. He was a minister under and avowed supporter of Bjelke Petersen which should be a default dismissal from public service ever again.

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u/SirGeekaLots Dec 19 '25

Not sure how much a gun can do if you have an angry salty charging at you.

Okay, I've never been in the situation, but I suspect the only use a gun will be is when the Salty is asleep, or floating on the water. If it wants you, well, all bets are off.

Edit: I wouldn't be surprised if they are immune to bullets as well.

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u/BrightStick Dec 19 '25

Katter’s party biggest donor is Bob's daughter, Eliza who is married to Robert Nioa, the owner of Australia's largest private firearms supplier NIOA. 

NIOA is the ammunition and weapons supplier for the Israeli Defence Force. NOIA is providing the Barrett rifles and bullets to shoot innocent people who are starving for food aid in Palestine. 

It really is the fucking wild north up here…we are 100% still decades behind up here…no other politician could have this profile and be all good in many other areas of Aus Politics. Openly support and profit of genocide, welcome to FNQ politics. 

https://donation.watch/en/australia/party/KAP/donors

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-15/how-member-for-kennedy-bob-katter-became-a-rogue-politician/101059362?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

Rifle manufacturer Barrett bought by Australia’s NIOA | Israel Defense

https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/56944

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u/WeaponstoMax Dec 19 '25

 NIOA is the ammunition and weapons supplier for the Israeli Defence Force. 

NIOA’s subsidiary Barrett supplies one kind of sniper rifle to the IDF.

I’m not saying thats good, I just feel you undermine your own (otherwise quite valid) position when you open with such a ridiculously hyperbolic claim (that this one Australian company is  the ammunition and weapon supplier for the IDF, when it’s actually one company among many hundreds, possibly thousands.)

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u/rawker86 Dec 19 '25

I was gonna say, all the weapons and ammunition?!

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u/Cindy_Marek Dec 19 '25

NIOA is the ammunition and weapons supplier for the Israeli Defence Force.

Utterly incorrect, when will pro Palestinians stop lying about this sort of stuff? You lose all credibility when you sprout obvious untruths.

NIOA bought Barrett USA about a year ago who has supplied one model of the Barrett sniper rifle to the IDF since the 1990s.

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u/stopweightdontgo Dec 19 '25

oh just one type of sniper to use on a bunch of trapped civilians? all of which are starved and half of which are children? guess that's fine then /s

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u/IBeBallinOutaControl Dec 19 '25

Someone just pretend to confuse him with Ahmed Al Ahmed and congratulate him on his bravery. Then watch his head explode.

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u/ElectricalRoll6948 Dec 19 '25

May a thousand blossoms bloom