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Full Title: NEW ZEALAND GUN OWNERS ARE VOLUNTARILY HANDING OVER SEMIAUTOMATIC RIFLES TO POLICE: 'WE DON'T NEED THESE IN OUR COUNTRY'Since Friday's deadly attack at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, gun owners have been turning up at local police stations seeking to have their own semiautomatic rifles—the weapon believed to have been used in the shootings—destroyed. In the days since the attacks, which saw 50 people killed and dozens more injured, a number of gun owners in New Zealand have gone on social media to encourage others to follow in their footsteps. They want them to hand over their...

A group of black ministers announced a plan today to help stop violence in Minneapolis' North Side neighborhoods. Rev. Jerry McAfee of New Salem Baptist Church said he would make his a church where people could turn in guns without any questions. Earlier this week, a person he didn't want to identified turned in a loaded 9mm Beretta. McAfee said any guns the church receives will be immediately given to police. McAfee, who was surrounded by other North Side ministers, activists and members of the Minnesota State Baptist Convention, said they are also working with gang members to get them...