Gun owners around the country will be asked to surrender illicit firearms without fear of prosecution in the fist national gun amnesty for more than 20 years.
The three-month amnesty will start from July 1 and will grant immunity from prosecution but not include a buyback, unlike the action the federal government took in 1996 in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre.
"This is as much about giving families a chance to get rid of an old heirloom as it is about getting rid of guns off our streets," Justice Minister Michael Keenan told AAP on Sunday.
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