Posted on 12/21/2019 5:13:01 PM PST by Olog-hai
New Zealand authorities said Saturday their country will be a safer place after owners handed in more than 50,000 guns during a buyback program following a ban on assault weapons.
But critics say the process was flawed and many owners have illegally stashed their firearms.
The government banned the most lethal types of semi-automatic weapons less than a month after a lone gunman in March killed 51 worshippers at two Christchurch mosques. The police then launched a six-month program to buy the newly banned weapons from owners.
The buyback ended midnight Friday, with gun collection events staying open late as police reported in a surge in last-minute returns.
Provisional figures indicate 33,000 people handed in 51,000 guns, and another 5,000 guns as part of a parallel amnesty in which owners could hand over any type of firearm without any questions being asked but without getting compensated. …
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There are anywhere from 2 to 3 times that number that were not turned in.
While the Mosque builds a Huge Arsenal
I’d like to get my hands on some of those “most lethal” guns! Do they also kill your soul or something?
Their thinking is flawed. Government should just dredge the bottom of lakes to find all those accidental losses of firearms. Funny how so many accidental losses happen.
Laws of nature. Laws of physics.
Speed of light. Entropy. Things people should know.
Like this: More guns, less crime. Not just a good idea; it’s the law.
More guns; less crime.
May your chains rest lightly upon you.
“Hell yeah...” GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN Beto O Mao must be encouraged. Where’s he been hiding in surrogate mommy Joy’s basement?
535+ vs. 330 MILLION
How did Stalin, Hitler, Mao do it?
Hey thanks crickets chirping “representatives”. Some music for you cowering punks...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAEppFUWLfc
Stupid idiots let this Australian leftist disarm them.
Yeah, I’d like to know how they estimate the number of prohibited firearms that are owned by Kiwis. I think the population is 4-5 million or so. Still, that’s way more than I thought would be turned in when the state doesn’t know who actually has them.
Freegards
“Safer” from what?
Somebody's confused.
An entire nation cucked.
Pitiful.
To think the Kiwis were once upon a time a nation to be proud of.
BTW, who dreamed up the stupid, misleading term, “buy back?” Since the govt. never own those firearms, how can the government buy them back? It must take a special kind of stupid to be a politician.
They had a registry prior to this, so the police knew where some of the guns were.
They still don ‘t have any clue where or how many unregistered ones there are.
Yeah, I think their stupid politicians learned it from our stupid politicians.
It's probably a term derived from a consensus panel.
Oh, I thought they didn’t have a registry.
Freegards
50,000 folks that can’t shoot back?
If I were so inclined, I’d give it another year, then invade.
Eezy pickins.
Won’t be long and they’ll be knocking on the doors in Virginia.
The native Maori did not give up their guns, guaranteed.
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