New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced an immediate ban on the sale of assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons, rapidly making good on a pledge to tighten the country's gun laws.
The move comes less than a week after a white supremacist attacked two mosques killing 50 people as they prayed, sparking global revulsion and national outrage. "Every semi-automatic weapon used in the terrorist attack on Friday will be banned in this country," Ms Ardern told a press conference. Ms Ardern added that high-capacity magazines and devices similar to bump stocks, which can make rifles fire faster, will also be outlawed.
Legislation enacting the restriction will be introduced in parliament when it meets in early April, but an interim measure means a ban on new purchases has, for practical purposes, already been enacted."It's a good thing, why would we need to have guns like this in our houses?" Kawthar Abulaban, 54, who survived the shooting at Al Noor mosque told AFP.
jacindaardern Leadership
jacindaardern Purely political move to take defence away from citizens. It’s like banning bread knives, will this stop stabbings?
jacindaardern Seize them dont just ban them
jacindaardern Swap her for Leo any day!
jacindaardern Well, they'll be ripe for a take over and they won't have anything to defend themselves with. Smart move.
jacindaardern How nice that NZ actually cares about people being massacred versus here in the U.S. where young children wear bulletproof backpacks to school where they have active shooter drills.
jacindaardern Looks like crazed gunmen will need to acquire their semi automatic weapons illegally from now on 👍🏻
jacindaardern Yeah, taking military grade weaponry out of the hands of kids and lunatics might be a good idea. It actually is, kudos.
jacindaardern wish NZ a piece of paradise be a gun free society except govt.forces.
jacindaardern It’s not even every weapon, just the semi-auto ones. What is this logic, people are just going to use fully-automatic or pump/bolt action weapons instead. Besides that, there are so many similar weapons to the ones banned, it probably won’t even make a big difference.
jacindaardern My God, she has singlehandedly solved all terrorism with the stroke of a pen, the woman is a genius!
jacindaardern She won’t mention the terrorist by name to stop him getting notoriety. But banning all those guns in the country will do just that. It doesn’t stop terrorists from using them. How many countries ban guns but still fall victim to gun crime?
jacindaardern As a hunter I'm always surprised at the thought you need an auto or semi automatic assault rifle to hunt, bolt action for civilians everything else for state forces
jacindaardern Something very fishy about this whole incident - Originally there were three shooters?
jacindaardern Terrorism changes New Zealand policy, law and rights. Did you hear that terrorists? Terrorism works.
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