National Gun amnesty declared by Australia
Due to the growing terrorism threat and an influx of illegal arms in the country Australia is bringing in its first national gun amnesty since 1996.
The government has said that during the three month amnesty which will be running from 1 July, people will be able to hand in unregistered weapons without the fear of prosecution.
Those that are caught outside that period will face fines of up to A$280,000 ($212,730; £166,480) or a jail time of up to 14 years in prison.
Estimates say that there are approximately 260,000 illicit guns in Australia.
A justice is expected to announce the details of the amnesty later on Friday.
The justice had earlier said “We are living in a time when our national security environment has deteriorated, Unfortunately, we have seen, through terror attacks in Australia, that illegal guns have been used. We believe… now is the time to run another amnesty, with the aim of reducing this pool of illegal guns.”
A similar amnesty had been declared in Australia after the 1996 shootings in Port Arthur.
Attacker Martin Bryant had killed 35 people in the historic tourist town in Tasmania in what is being considered the worst mass shooting in Australia’s history.
In recent years the authorities have been expressing growing concern over the threat of possible terrorist attacks in the country.
Last month, they said they were treating as a “terrorist incident” a siege in Melbourne in which a gunman was killed.
In 2014, a 16-hour hostage situation in a Sydney cafe ended with three people dead, including the gunman hostage-taker.
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