NZ to ban all military style weapons - PM
Source: BBC
New Zealand will ban all types of semi-automatic weapons used in the Christchurch attacks, says PM Jacinda Ardern.
The country's gun laws have been in the spotlight since a gunman killed 50 people at two mosques last Friday.
Ms Ardern said she expected the new legislation to be in place by 11 April.
She said a buy-back scheme would be set up for banned weapons
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But what about when the jackbooted hobbits invade?
romainetarra
(51 posts)How do we get more news like this to brighten our days.
randomguy2021
(10 posts)They will make this happen. That said, I was hoping they would have gone the same route as Auatralia. Ironically, I'm willing to bet that the shooter moved to NZ so he could own weapons that he could not legally posess in his "native" Australia.
gopiscrap
(23,757 posts)SFnomad
(3,473 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,185 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Why can't we have nice things like that?
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,339 posts)Imagine an "efficient" Trump, Miller, Mulvaney, Bannon, Kushner, etc.
The horror.
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)TomSlick
(11,097 posts)You can't imagine how proud this makes me.