In 2021, Australia marked the 25th anniversary of the worst mass shooting in the country’s history. That shooting happened in April 1996 when a gunman, Martin Bryant, went on a shooting spree, killing 35 and injuring many others.
This event is the inspiration of the critically acclaimed film “Nitram” by famed Australian director Justin Kurzel (“Macbeth,” “True History of the Kelly Gang”) and writer Shaun Grant.
READ MORE: ‘Nitram’: Caleb Landry Jones Is Chilling In Justin Kurzel’s Portrait Of An Infamous Australian Mass Shooter [Cannes Review] Australia hasn’t experienced a mass shooting incident since the Port Arthur event in 1996 because the conservative prime minister at the time, John Howard, triggered a National Firearms Agreement law “limiting licensing and ownership controls of guns.” According to Reuters, Australia banned all semi-automatic rifles, all semi-automatic, and collected thousands of unlicensed firearms under a gun amnesty.
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