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Australian PM declines to offer Trump any advice on gun control

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has declined to offer U.S. President Donald Trump any advice on gun control. (Courtesy)

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has declined to offer U.S. President Donald Trump any advice on gun control days after the latest mass shooting at a U.S. school, despite Australia’s success in cutting gun violence.

Australia has some of the world’s toughest gun control laws, introduced after its worst mass murder, when a gunman killed 35 people at Port Arthur in the island state of Tasmania in 1996.

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