New Zealanders are "panic buying" guns in the wake of the Christchurch terror attack and in anticipation of the Government tightening gun laws.
Self-described white supremacist Brenton Harrison Tarrant attacked with illegally modified weapons. But police and gun experts believe Tarrant, who held a basic New Zealand gun licence, probably legally purchased the guns themselves, and they were later altered. A gun expert told Newsroom the shotgun first used by Tarrant at the Deans Ave mosque appeared to be a Mossberg 930 semi-automatic. This gun has a magazine capacity of seven rounds, and once he ran out of ammunition in the shotgun, he appeared to dump it and switch to an AR15.
The expert told Newsroom they were "today's sporting rifle". They were often used for deer, goat and pig hunting, and competitive target shooting, according to online gun sites. Both types of guns could be purchased by someone holding a regular Category A licence, without any special endorsements. While Ardern said Tarrant legally held five firearms, Police Commissioner Mike Bush confirmed a Category A firearm licence holder could purchase the guns without the magazines, "or the things that will enable them to be in the state that they were".
Now confiscate then.
Good.
Does someone want to explain to me why civilians even need semi-automatics? Like what are you doing with that kind of weaponry in your daily life?
I don’t understand the obsession over firearms, it’s like oxygen to some people.
Idiots think that stockpiling guns ahead of crackdown will somehow quarantine their purchases!
Easy, make it illegal to possess them.
At least next there’ll be a good guy with a gun, right?
Make sure you keep the receipt.
Panic buy before the crackdown or retaliation?
They must really be afraid of the sheep.
All going straight onto the watchlists I hope. nzpolice INTERPOL_HQ
I hope they're all required to hand in the semis they've just bought them as we were in Aust, but without the compensation if the purchase was within these past few days.
. Let's be clear. Even though this has been one of the most catastrophic intelligence and security failures of a generation, Jacinda Ardern has handled it magnificently. No male could have handled such incompetence so well. It's incompetence for our time.
****WHY?**** Lessons Of GunViolence, RaceHate not learned, yet? 😣🙄 CHRISTChurch 🇦🇺♥️🌈🇳🇿
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