WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand's governor general has formally signed into effect sweeping gun laws outlawing military style weapons, less than a month after a man used such guns to kill 50 people and wound dozens at two mosques in Christchu
A British writer residing in New Zealand who prefers not to be named told Xinhua that he was surprised at the easy access to semi-automatics in the country, saying that gun control laws should be stricter."There is no valid reason to own fully- or semi-automatic weapons in New Zealand,"...
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, March 18 (Xinhua) -- In the wake of Friday's horrific mass-shooting in Christchurch that left 50 people dead and scores more fighting for their lives in hospital, New Zealand's gun laws have come under immense public pressure as those across the country try to ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s governor general on Thursday formally signed into effect sweeping gun laws outlawing military style weapons, less than a month after a man used such guns to kill 50 people and wound dozens at two mosques in Christchurch. Governor General Patsy R...
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has vowed to reform her country's gun laws in response to theworst mass shootingin the country's modern history.Fifty people were killedwhen a gunman opened fire Friday at two different mosques in Christchurch. The 28-year-old suspect allegedly t...
Just hours after the mosque massacre in New Zealand that left at least 49 dead, the country’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, promised a change in national gun laws. “While work is being done as to the chain of events that lead to both the holding of this gun license and the possessi...
officials are wasting no time exploring new ways to keep their citizens safe from gun violence. The authorities in New Zealand, where there is nothing comparable to the Second Amendment that exists in the United States, are acting as if new gun laws are simply a common-sense reaction to a ...
New Zealand’s speedy decision about changing its gun laws, after the attacks on two mosques, is reverberating around the world, but especially in the ears of the presidents of the United States and Brazil. In the U.S., because of escalating gun violence and hate-related mass killings, peo...
ATTEMPTS TO STRENGTHEN New Zealand’s gun-control laws have failed in parliament four times over the past 20 years. That was before a white supremacist laid siege to two mosques in the city of Christchurch on March 15th, killing 50 people. This week a bill to ban the kind of high-powere...
gun laws were swiftly amended after the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings. Just 24 hours after the attack, in which 51 people were killed,Prime Minister Jacinda Ardernannounced that the law would change. New Zealand’s parliament voted almost unanimously to change the country’s gun laws less ...