New Zealand gun owners begin handing over weapons for cash

New Zealand gun owners have begun turning over banned assault rifles for cash.Dozens of Christchurch gun owners handed over their weapons in exchange for cash in the first of more than 250 planned buyback events around New Zealand after the government outlawed many types of semi-automatics.

Police say they paid more than 200,000 New Zealand dollars to 68 gun owners in the first couple of hours of the Saturday event. New Zealand lawmakers in April rushed through new legislation to ban so-called military-style weapons after a lone gunman killed 51 people at two Christchurch mosques in March.The government has set aside more than NZ$200 million to buy back weapons such as AR-15 style rifles, although many gun owners remain unhappy with the compensation on offer.

Do you think this will succeed? Though I too wish. We never know how many guns are in the market being used and abused..in one pretext or other. Still a small beginning.

SherylFallon4 Dozens? 😂

🐂💩

Guns suck

Falling right into the manifesto of the shooter and what he wanted

That really is a terrible photo to go with.

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