Thirty Years After the Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania, Is It Goodbye to Weapons?

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On April 28, 1996, in the historic village of Port Arthur in Tasmania, an Australian state, a man opened fire on a crowd, armed with semi-automatic rifles and pistols. This mass shooting—35 dead and dozens wounded—the worst in the country's history, profoundly altered Australia's relationship with firearms. With another shooting occurring in December 2025 in Bondi, near Sydney, are the reforms adopted at the time sufficient?