By Matt Bevan for ABC News' If You're Listening
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Analysis: In the wake of the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, Australian Prime Minister John Howard took just a few weeks to enact one of the biggest pieces of gun control reform in the world.
Given how difficult it can seem to get big, nation-altering legislation through Parliament, it would be easy to think that, once it's done, we could rely on it forever.
For nearly three decades, these reforms spared Australians from the mass shootings that have become so prevalent in the US and yet the horrific attack on Australia's Jewish community in Bondi, killing 15 people and wounding 40 others, showed that our laws were not as watertight as we'd all like to believe.
As the sound of gunfire echoed across Bondi Beach, the frequency of the gunshots was terrifying. Both shooters were firing relentlessly, stopping only occasionally to reload their weapons.
In one piece of footage of the attack, Sajid Akram - the older of the two men - can be seen apparently firing his shotgun eight times without reloading.
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It may have been more, but in the cacophony of gunfire, it becomes difficult to discern who was firing.
Yet Akram apparently owne
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