One of the Bondi Beach terror suspects was granted a gun license even after his son was investigated by Australian intelligence for his links to a convicted ISIS terrorist, officials said.

Sajid Akram, 50 — who is accused of carrying out the mass shooting with his son, Naveed Akram, 24 — had applied for a gun license in 2020 to acquire the very weapons used to kill 15 people on Sunday, New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon told reporters.

The application was submitted just a year after Naveed fell under the watch of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization for his links to failed local terrorist Isaac El Matari.

Naveed had been on the watchlist for six months in 2019 before officials deemed that he posed no immediate threat to the country, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.

Akram’s gun license was then approved in 2023, allowing him to legally acquire and register the six weapons police found in his procession following the bloody shooting in Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach.

It was previously reported that Akram’s gun license was active since 2015, but that application had lapsed when he failed to provide a photograph, Lanyon said.

Local and federal officials have come under scrutiny over the lapse that allowed Akram to acquire six weapons despite his son’s background and the rampant scope of antisemitism in a country that already has some of the strictest gun laws.

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns said parliament would be recalled next week to consider several gun safety reforms, including one that would allow police access to all intelligence when deciding whether to grant a gun license, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

“One aspect of gun law reform that is absolutely essential in New South Wales — and it will be controversial — is for police to use criminal intelligence, not just a criminal record, in determining whether someone should keep a gun license or even be granted a gun license in this state,” he said.

Lawmakers are also considering putting a cap on the number of guns a person can own, as well as banning non-citizens from owning firearms.

Opposition leaders in Australia claim the conversations around gun reform were distracting from the national debate on the rise of global antisemitism since the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack in Israel.

Akram was killed during the shootout with police, with Naveed awakening from a coma on Tuesday and charged with 59 offenses, including murder and terrorism.