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Australian state strengthens gun control after terror attack kills police accountant

Xinhua, November 18, 2015 Adjust font size:

Laws targeting the illegal gun trade in an Australian state have passed just weeks after a prohibited weapon was used to in an alleged terror attack against a police accountant.

New South Wales has strengthened existing illegal firearms sales, imposing 14-year jail sentences for a range of offences including use, supply or acquisition of prohibited firearms.

"These laws have a clear focus of hitting the illegal firearms trade because it's clear the illegal gun market presents the threat to the community," NSW Police and Justice Minister Troy Grant said in a statement late on Tuesday night.

The laws come just over six weeks since a prohibited firearm was used in the shooting of police accountant Curtis Cheng outside the Parramatta Police Station in what authorities have described as an act of terrorism.

It is alleged Talal Alamaddine, 22, supplied a prohibited firearm to Raban Alou, who then gave it to teen gunman Farhad Jabar, 15 in the hours before he allegedly used it to gun down Cheng on Oct. 2.

Jabar was subsequently killed following a shootout with police special constables.

Alamaddine, who's been remanded in the notorious Goulburn "Supermax" prison returns to court on Dec. 10. Endit