Matt Damon talks gun control ahead of ‘Bourne’ release

Case in point: While promoting Jason Bourne in Australia, Damon was candid about his thoughts on gun control both overseas and in his home country, the United States.

Damon poses in the Twitter Blue Room on July 4, 2016 in Sydney, Australia.

Australia passed the National Firearms Agreement in 1996 just 12 days after what became known as the Port Arthur massacre.

Their “wink-wink, nudge-nudge” approach to gun laws thus far has featured repeated proclamations that they really are coming for our guns.

The action star went on to say people get too “emotional” when it comes to “not selling AK47s to people on terror watchlists”.

“I don’t know what needs to happen”, continued Damon. “Obviously mass shootings aren’t going to do it”.

Damon, who plays Jason Bourne in the The Bourne Identity series, is often filmed using a variety of firearms for his character. “We just can’t”, Damon told the news site.

The Departed star’s comments come just weeks after Omar Mateen opened fire at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida and killed 49 people and injured 53 others in June (16) with a semi-automatic rifle.

“It’s wonderful what Australia did because you guys haven’t had a mass shooting since you went, ‘No, we’re going to be sensible about this, ‘” Damon said.

The actor revealed that photo is indeed of his real hair and was taken in 1988, so way before the pair’s rise to stardom with Good Will Hunting.

Jason Bourne will mark the first time Matt Damon will reprise his role as spy Jason Bourne since The Bourne Ultimatum, which came out in 2007- it was the last of the trilogy based on the books by Robert Ludlum. Watch the official trailer below.