WELLINGTON: New legislation to tighten New Zealand gun laws in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings drew overwhelming support when it was introduced to parliament on Tuesday .
The sole holdout against the legislation was David Seymour, a conservative whose ACT Party has a single seat in parliament.Seymour criticised the speed with which his colleagues were handling the legislation, fast-tracking a process that usually takes months so that the law will take effect by the end of next week.
The ban on military-style semi-automatic rifles is in response to the March 15 rampage in Christchurch by a white supremacist which claimed 50 lives AFP/WILLIAM WEST New Zealand has about 1.5 million privately owned firearms, or 0.3 per person, including an estimated 13,500 MSSAsPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern, widely praised for her compassionate and decisive leadership following the Islamophobic attack, has also called for action by social media giants after the alleged gunman livestreamed the atrocity online.
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Kiwis better not let their tyrannical government disarm them without a bloody fight. Free men own guns, subjects and slaves don’t.
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