NZ to ban all military style weapons - PM

[brooklynite]

Source: BBC

New Zealand will ban all types of semi-automatic weapons used in the Christchurch attacks, says PM Jacinda Ardern.

The country's gun laws have been in the spotlight since a gunman killed 50 people at two mosques last Friday.

Ms Ardern said she expected the new legislation to be in place by 11 April.

She said a buy-back scheme would be set up for banned weapons

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47648549?ocid=socialflow_twitter

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But what about when the jackbooted hobbits invade?

[romainetarra]

1. More news like this

How do we get more news like this to brighten our days.

[randomguy2021]

2. With no gun industry

They will make this happen. That said, I was hoping they would have gone the same route as Auatralia. Ironically, I'm willing to bet that the shooter moved to NZ so he could own weapons that he could not legally posess in his "native" Australia.

[gopiscrap]

5. welcome to DU

[SFnomad]

3. And they never tried "tots and pears" ... how disappointing n/t

[AllaN01Bear]

4. no lets talk this over . no its too soon. boom . done .

[SunSeeker]

6. NZ's government is so damn rational and efficient.

Why can't we have nice things like that?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. "Efficiency" is not always a good thing.

Imagine an "efficient" Trump, Miller, Mulvaney, Bannon, Kushner, etc.

The horror.

[nitpicker]

7. Links to DW and The Guardian (and NZ Herald)

https://www.dw.com/en/new-zealand-bans-semi-automatic-automatic-weapons/a-48003812

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/new-zealand-brings-in-sweeping-gun-law-changes-in-wake-of-christchurch-attacks

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12214763

[Sherman A1]

8. Excellent

[TomSlick]

10. And yesterday a bill was introduced in the Arkansas Senate to eliminate "gun free zones."

You can't imagine how proud this makes me.