WELLINGTON: New Zealand will crack down on firearms ownership this week after the Christchurch mosques massacre that claimed 50 lives - and the ...
WELLINGTON: New Zealand will crack down on firearms ownership this week after the Christchurch mosques massacre that claimed 50 lives - and the Kiwi gun lobby, for the most part, is okay with that.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's government announced an immediate ban on military-style semi-automatic rifles after the shooting and will put laws to parliament formalising its action on Tuesday. "Such weapons of war have no place in our business -- or our country," chief executive Darren Jacobs said.
Another office holder has told media the New Zealand NRA is considering changing its name to avoid any association with the American body. In the United States, population approximately 327 million, there were 14,415, more than two hundred times the per capita rate as New Zealand.There are approximately 393 million guns in private hands in the United States, or 1.2 for every person, whereas New Zealand has about 1.5 million, or 0.3 per person.
Alperts, himself a Kiwi, said countries such as New Zealand viewed gun ownership as a privilege, while in America it was seen as an inalienable right.
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