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
Over the past week, gun owners in New Zealand have started to hand in their semi-automatics voluntarily to the police for destruction. The government is also working on a buyback program.Ardern said Australia, after the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, had changed its laws in 12 days, and ...
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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. ...
WELLINGTON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- A new gun law following the Christchurch shootings on March 15 has passed its first reading in New Zealand's parliament on Tuesday. New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the morning after the shootings that gun laws must change. ...
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the “first tranche” to reforms on gun laws – beginning with the immediate ban on the sale of semi-automatic and ‘assault’ rifles, six days after attacks on two mosques in Christchurch left...
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…