Kiwis Just Say No to Gun Ban

[DGUtley]

New Zealand politicians who rushed to enact nationwide gun confiscation following the Christchurch mosque massacres are befuddled by the lack of enthusiasm from citizens who have yet to comply with the new law. The so-called “gun reform” was expected to rid the vast New Zealand countryside of most semi-automatic firearms, magazines over a specified limit, and shotguns. So far, it's confiscation efforts haven't been successful. New Zealand has an estimated 1.5 million guns in circulation. According to gunpolicy.org, at least 13,500 are military style semi-automatics.

Not going so well: Only 530 firearms have been turned in: https://www.worldtribune.com/nation-...-530-firearms/




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[Collateral Damage]

A something inferred from the above - 'when all 1.5 million other guns have been turned in, I'll turn in mine.'

[stjames1_53]

All it took is for registration be enacted 10-15 years ago, and they know where to find the majority of them today.

[MMC]

[jimmyz]

I can't hand in guns that were lost in a boating accident unless the government wants to go for a dive.

[Sergeant Gleed]

I guess the story that the NZ gangs publicly announcing their intention to refuse to comply wasn't censored in kiwi-land.

[Captain Obvious]

[Peter1469]

It looks like the NZ citizens are more concerned with self-protection than the rants from the State.

[Cthulhu]

Ha ha.

Friggin statists.

Sent from my evil cell phone.

[Peter1469]

New Zealand gun control ban fails as Kiwis ignore the new bans

Looks like most gun owners in New Zealand don't think much of the gun-grab. Apparently they say: "Molon Labe." (Come take)

New Zealanders have decided to ignore the gun bans imposed on them by the government in the wake of the mass shooting at Christchurch. They have effectively nullified the law banning semi-automatic firearms and shotguns by completely ignoring it.

Politicians are left scratching their heads and wondering why New Zealanders won’t comply with their authoritarian edicts. The so-called “gun reform” was expected to rid the vast New Zealand countryside of most semi-automatic firearms, magazines over a specified limit, and shotguns. New Zealand’s political chatelaine, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, had an almost unanimous parliamentary vote to institute the gun buy-back, though as Liberty Nation Legal Affairs EditorScott Cosenza asserts, “Buy-back is really a misnomer because the government never owned those guns in the first place.”

As for how many now illegal guns are still in the hands of the Kiwis, that’s unknown. Because those guns outlawed have never been registered with authorities, it’s impossible to get an accurate count and impossible to know where any of them are. The government has shot itself in the foot because the numbers that are available, show that New Zealand is quite heavily armed per capita. There are an estimated 1.2-1.5 million guns in a country of approximately 4.7 million people. To put it another way, the land of the Kiwi is about as big as Colorado with the population of Louisiana. New York City, for example, is home to about 8.6 million (2017 estimate), almost double the size of the New Zealand population.