Naveed Akram previously known to security agencies, prime minister says. His gun-owning father, Sajid, was shot dead by police at the scene

Naveed Akram previously known to security agencies, prime minister says. His gun-owning father, Sajid, was shot dead by police at the scene

The alleged gunmen behind the Bondi beach attack are a father-son duo suspected of using legally obtained firearms to commit the massacre, according to police.

Naveed Akram, 24, was arrested at the scene and taken to a Sydney hospital with critical injuries. His 50-year-old father, who the Sydney Morning Herald first reported to be Sajid Akram, was shot dead by police.

The pair allegedly killed 15 people, with dozens more injured in the shootings, which took place on Sunday during a gathering to celebrate the first night of Hanukah.

The son was known to New South Wales police and security agencies, while his father had a firearms licence with six weapons registered to him. All six firearms have been recovered, police said.

  • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    14 hours ago

    Way to ignore everything I have posted.

    Australia since 1996 has more firearms than before the ban and buy back. Yet has less mass shootings.

    So you make that work. More firearms in civ hands than ever, yet less shootings.

    Is it the number of guns or some other factor?

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      13 hours ago

      Australia since 1996 has more firearms than before the ban and buy back. Yet has less mass shootings.

      “Nobody can ever have guns for any reason” is not what gun control means.

      Basically, all you just told me is that their gun control schemes worked. Assuming what you said is even true.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        9 hours ago

        The ends do mean exactly that. This shooting has already spured more gun control which will further remove the ability for a civilian to own any firearm in Australia.

        https://www.npr.org/2025/12/15/nx-s1-5645002/australia-new-gun-laws-sydney-bondi-shooting

        Also the “has more guns than before the ban” is in that article. It’s 25% more than before the 96 shooting.

        The end goal is complete disarming of the population.

        And once again you ignore the rest of what I have stated… because the end for you is no one owning firearms. After that, you’ll be there with the UK and their knives ban.

        Humans are violent when uneducated and poor. This isn’t some bullshit statement. It’s Truth. The more we combat both of these globally the less violence there will be.