Australia Announces Plan to Buy Back Guns in Wake of Bondi Attack NYT | Top Stories By: Yan Zhuang and Damien Cave 19 December 2025 at 13:57 The program is expected to take hundreds of thousands of firearms out of circulation, the prime minister said on Friday. © Hilary Wardhaugh/Getty ImagesPrime Minister Anthony Albanese, right, at a news conference in Canberra, Australia, on Friday. He announced a nationwide gun buyback plan on the heels of a deadly mass shooting in Sydney last weekend.