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New Zealand's Prime Minister announces ban on all assault rifles following massacre under strong gun
« on: March 21, 2019, 02:41:34 am »
(CNN) — New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that all military-style semi-automatic weapons, assault rifles and high-capacity magazines will be banned in the country following the mass shootings at two Christchurch mosques that killed 50 people.

"Every semi-automatic weapon used in the terror attack on Friday will be banned," Ardern said at a press conference in the New Zealand capital Wellington on Thursday. "This legislation will be drafted and introduced in urgency."

Ardern said she hopes the law will be in place by April 11. She encouraged all gun owners who wish to surrender their weapons to start now.

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/03/20/asia/new-zealand-christchurch-gun-ban-intl/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F
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Re: New Zealand's Prime Minister announces ban on all assault rifles following massacre under strong
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2019, 02:46:17 am »
"Today I am announcing that New Zealand will ban all military-style semi-automatic weapons. We will also ban all assault rifles. We will also ban all high capacity magazines," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in a statement Wednesday. "We will ban all parts with the ability to convert semi-automatic or any other type of firearm into a military style semi-automatic weapon."

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/zealand-prime-minister-announces-sweeping-gun-law-changes-022800586--abc-news-topstories.html
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Re: New Zealand's Prime Minister announces ban on all assault rifles following massacre under strong
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2019, 03:13:35 am »
Some 460,000 rifles in NZ, but not broken down ti say how many Semi-autos.

https://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/new-zealand

Estimated to be 2-3X that many unregistered firearms.

I wonder how many are just going to turn them in?

Like the half million bump stocks out there which will be illegal come March 26th.

Are people just going to give them up?

To me, this makes as much sense as ordering rental trucks crushed because McVeigh used one in OK City to haul a bomb to a Federal Building.
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Re: New Zealand's Prime Minister announces ban on all assault rifles following massacre under strong
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2019, 03:45:33 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 21, 2019, 03:13:35 am
To me, this makes as much sense as ordering rental trucks crushed because McVeigh used one in OK City to haul a bomb to a Federal Building.


Well, after OKC, the ATF and fertilizer companies started monitoring sales of ammonium nitrate.
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Re: New Zealand's Prime Minister announces ban on all assault rifles following massacre under strong
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2019, 07:04:29 am »
Quote from: edpc on March 21, 2019, 03:45:33 am

Well, after OKC, the ATF and fertilizer companies started monitoring sales of ammonium nitrate.
ANFO had been around a long time before Oklahoma City. It was/is a popular mining explosive. The properties of ammonium nitrate were well known, especially after the Texas City Disaster in 1947.

I'm surprised they hadn't been monitoring large purchases, especially by someone without a mine or a farm.
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Re: New Zealand's Prime Minister announces ban on all assault rifles following massacre under strong
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2019, 02:07:44 pm »
Quote from: edpc on March 21, 2019, 02:41:34 am
(CNN) — New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that all military-style semi-automatic weapons, assault rifles and high-capacity magazines will be banned....

I want to know what military uses semi-auto and not full auto?
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Re: New Zealand's Prime Minister announces ban on all assault rifles following massacre under strong
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2019, 02:36:36 pm »
Quote from: thackney on March 21, 2019, 02:07:44 pm
I want to know what military uses semi-auto and not full auto?

"Military-style" = black
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Re: New Zealand's Prime Minister announces ban on all assault rifles following massacre under strong
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2019, 03:14:43 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on March 21, 2019, 02:36:36 pm
"Military-style" = black


Glad I got the earth tone Tavor.




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Re: New Zealand's Prime Minister announces ban on all assault rifles following massacre under strong
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2019, 03:21:45 pm »
Quote from: edpc on March 21, 2019, 03:14:43 pm

Glad I got the earth tone Tavor.


Tavor bullpup? Nice squirrel gun.
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Re: New Zealand's Prime Minister announces ban on all assault rifles following massacre under strong
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2019, 03:26:08 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on March 21, 2019, 03:21:45 pm
Tavor bullpup? Nice squirrel gun.


That one has been on my wish list, for a while. I had kept putting it off, since it was pricey. However, I got it a few days after Stoneman Douglas, thinking there’d be a similar knee-jerk reaction regarding our gun laws.
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Re: New Zealand's Prime Minister announces ban on all assault rifles following massacre under strong
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2019, 05:40:03 pm »
Quote from: thackney on March 21, 2019, 02:07:44 pm
I want to know what military uses semi-auto and not full auto?
They're convinced the AR-15 and just about every other semi-auto is an assault rifle.  :shrug:
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