Australia offers gun control advice to US

Published October 4, 2017 3:41pm ET



Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is sharing some advice to the United States on gun control in the wake of the Las Vegas mass shooting.

Bishop credited Australia’s national firearms agreement, which outlawed semi-automatic and automatic weapons, as well as their gun buyback program for the country’s lowered gun violence rate, enacted following a mass shooting at Port Arthur in 1996.

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