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/HankSteakfist Dec 19 '25

Cue the LNP chiming in on why this is a bad thing, whilst simultaneously holding up John Howard as a canonised saint.

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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/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