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New South Wales is rolling out its biggest gun buyback ever—targeting 270,000 firearms this November—after the Bondi Beach tragedy and amid a record 4.1 million legally owned guns across Australia. Despite past reforms that saw gun numbers rise 25% since Port Arthur, the real threat may lie not in registered weapons but in untraceable illegal ones, including newly emerging 3D-printed guns that bypass traditional controls. Experts warn that without better inter-state data sharing and smarter strategies to tackle covertly acquired arms, even massive buybacks might feel like symbolic gestures in the face of an evolving, invisible gun crisis.

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