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Albo’s national gun buyback is a shemozzle · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. A national crackdown on gun ownership
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  Speaker 1: is in jeopardy, with Anthony Albanesi struggling to get the
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  Speaker 1: states and territories to sign up to his gun buyback
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  Speaker 1: that's aimed at getting weapons out of the community in
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  Speaker 1: the wake of the Bondai terror attack. The system would
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  Speaker 1: cost billions of dollars and the PM has been trying
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  Speaker 1: to hammer out the details with premiers and Chief ministers.
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  Speaker 1: New South Wales has already passed new laws limiting gun
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  Speaker 1: owners to four weapons except four farmers and others who
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  Speaker 1: can demonstrate they need up to ten. Data shows some
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  Speaker 1: homes have hundreds of weapons registered to the same address.
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  Speaker 1: New South Wales gun owners are already supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: handing in excess weapons to police stations on the promise
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  Speaker 1: they'll be compensated, but how much man who pays is
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  Speaker 1: the sticking point in taking the scheme now national. The
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  Speaker 1: Commonwealth has already passed laws that dramatically change how guns
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  Speaker 1: are handled, including by criminalizing designs for three D printing
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  Speaker 1: of guns and allowing authorities to use criminal intelligence like
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  Speaker 1: someone's social media history or associations, and not just their
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  Speaker 1: criminal record when assessing whether they can have a gun license.
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  Speaker 1: There are new restrictions on the importation of high powered
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  Speaker 1: weapons and ammunition, as well as silences. The Commonwealth laws
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  Speaker 1: provide for the national gun buyback, but don't actually set
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  Speaker 1: out how much each weapon will be worth or who pays,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where the trouble has struck. There's serious opposition
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  Speaker 1: led by gun manufacturers as well as the National Party
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  Speaker 1: and One Nation, but the Prime Minister is still saying
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  Speaker 1: he wants states and territories to agree in the next
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  Speaker 1: two months on a design for the scheme and legislate
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  Speaker 1: new laws by j L. Queensland and the Northern Territory
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  Speaker 1: don't want a bar of it, with Queensland Premier David
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  Speaker 1: Chris A Fuley and NT Chief Minister Lea Finocchiaro emerging
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  Speaker 1: from a National Cabinet meeting on Friday still refusing to
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  Speaker 1: pay for this scheme. The states in Commonwealth did come
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  Speaker 1: to a huge new agreement on hospital funding on Friday
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  Speaker 1: and we're covering all the details of that right now
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