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The troubled NSW Firearms Registry had no in-house intelligence capability in the years before the Bondi Beach terror attack, which prompted internal warnings of a significant risk to public safety, the royal commission has heard.
The firearms registry, which NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley described as a “shambles” in the weeks after the December 14 massacre, was left without a senior intelligence analyst from November 2021, when the position was terminated, until December 2023.
When the role was reintroduced, it remained unfilled until February 2025, the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion was told on Wednesday.
Gun ownership laws have been the focus of state and federal governments following last year’s Bondi attack, where 15 mostly Jewish people were gunned down at a Hanukkah festival. One of the gunmen, Sajid Akram, legally owned six guns at the time of the massacre.
Akram applied for a NSW gun permit in 2020, which was granted three years later even though he lived with his son, Naveed, who had been investigated by ASIO for his suspected links to terrorist sympathisers in 2019.
Intelligence gaps in firearms registry posed major risk to safety
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