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Gun Control & RKBA

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friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
Thu Jun 6, 2019, 03:08 PM Jun 2019

NZ Herald: "Only 530 semi-automatic guns handed over, police say" [View all]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12235230

Figures released to Newstalk ZB by the New Zealand Police showed that, as of Sunday night, only 530 guns had been handed in since the ban on semi-automatic guns was finalised in early April.

There are around 250,000 licenced firearm holders in New Zealand and it's estimated as many as 300,000 guns could now be illegal...

... McKee expected most people would comply with the laws, but she said that there was no trust in the system whatsoever among firearms owners, and that people felt blindsided and blamed.

"We are effectively being punished for the acts of a foreign terrorist, and we want to make sure that our personal and private property is adequately compensated when it is confiscated."


The nerve of those heartless bastards! When will they step up and accept their share of collective guilt for something they didn't do?

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