New Zealand's Gun Owners Have So Far Voluntarily Surrendered 37 Firearms (truncated)

Buzzfeed ^ | 03/20/2019 | Tasneem Nashrulla

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Full title: New Zealand's Gun Owners Have So Far Voluntarily Surrendered 37 Firearms — Of An Estimated 1.2 Million

Following reports that a flood of New Zealand gun owners have been voluntarily surrending their firearms in the wake of last Friday's Christchurch mosque attack that left 50 dead, the numbers are in on how many Kiwis actually handed over their weapons.

Out of an estimated 1.2 million registered guns, New Zealand police report that as of Tuesday night, 37 firearms have been surrendered nationwide, according to BuzzFeed.

No accounting was provided of how many people owned those guns, the types of firearms, or where they were surrendered.

The reports of citizens disarming themselves came after a Monday announcement by Prime minister Jacinda Ardern that several "in principle decisions" on gun control have been made by Cabinet ministers, while praising residents who have surrendered their guns to police.

So far, we know of four people who have; Green Party member John Hart and longtime gun owner "@SirWB" - who each turned in a rifle, a grandmother who goes by the Twitter handle "@FeyHag" who said she requested for her family's guns to be handed in for destruction, and former New Zealand Army soldier Pete Breidahl - who said he warned local police of extremists at a local rifle club where he said he suspected the shooter was a member.

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The Fake News strikes again. The Left really, really wants to see millions of guns turned in, so that’s what they report. Never believe them.

Narrative uber alles. 4 out of 5 'Goebbels' for the reporting on this story.

[farming pharmer]

I know guys who would snort in derision at a single person owning only 37 weapons.

I know a guy with four *full* large Liberty safes. One can dream, I guess...

[Finnwolf]

The return of the Hobbits to the Shire was extremely changed in the film. A great series of books to read.

Sir Christopher Lee, who played Saruman in the movie, was so fond of the Tolkien novels, that he read them every year.

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"37? A single gun owner in Arizona could do that."

I think they call that "Spring cleaning."

[Wonder Warthog]

"The return of the Hobbits to the Shire was extremely changed in the film. A great series of books to read."

Yup...sure wish Peter Jackson had stuck to Tolkien's script. But if he had, the movie would probably have been "unsellably" long. Too bad there is not a DVD-only release with the altered ending.