Posted on 06/04/2019 7:39:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The figures are in for New Zealand's 'voluntary' gun 'amnesty' and well, anyone who understands gun ownership shouldn't be surprised.
In a nation with 150,000 gun permits and an estimated 1.5 million guns in circulation, the number of actual military-style weapons turned in is ... 530.
Obviously, not everyone in New Zealand is onboard with the country's hastily thrown together new law to expropriate weapons in the name of protection from mass shootings. What that utterly miserable '530' figure shows is mass resistance, in response to the complete stupidity of blaming a mass shooting on the gun, not the foreign terrorist using the gun. That's what New Zealand's lefty parliament came up with in the wake of a hideous mass shooting at a Christchurch mosque last March by an Australian national. Instead of enacting legislation to, say, keep the likes of this nut out of their country, the Kiwis decided to target New Zealand's gun owners in what was abusively called an 'amnesty,' suggested they were the ones who did something wrong. With turn-ins amounting to a rounding error, it's obvious they're resisting.
When the gun grab was first announced, press reports rather mendaciously reported that Kiwis were all in for this kind of expropriation and heaped tons of praise on the national character. An Agence France-Presse piece that ran in gun-controlled Singapore had particularly dishonest coverage here.
Now the news, delicately expressed by Stuff.co.nz is that the rest of the gun owners "might not surrender them.' With a grand total of 530 in the hopper, ya think?
The press is reporting that the owners are awaiting compensation information, which apparently the first turn-ins don't qualify for, but even that has an 'off' smell to it. According to Stuff.co.nz:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Excellent.
Now the good people of New Zealand should hunt down the cadre Communists who run the country and....vote them out of office.
Meh. Color me unimpressed.
I will only be proud of them if they USE those firearms to FORCE a backdown of the gun laws.
“ the owners are awaiting compensation information,”
Yeah that’s the reason /s
I suspect also there’s been a dramatic increase in boating accidents in NZ.
Here’s the thing...the national election is slated for summer/fall of 2020. I would question the Labour Party getting it’s previous number (37-percent), and this entire law will be rewritten over again....with just people with convictions or mental issues having their weapons taken. Journalists will standing there and shaking their heads...having fallen for the whole epic saga.
Lol. I like that.
The left’s plan is to take guns from non-violent citizens while deliberately and intentionally leaving them in the hands of violent criminals.
If it’s anything like gun buy-backs in the US, a fair majority of them are in poor repair. About 5 years ago my Uncle in Chicago turned in 3 inoperable handguns to the police in a buy-back program and got $150 that went to his gun fund and next purchase.
Obviously the citizens of NZ aren’t impressed with the MORONIC anti-gun policies of the NZ government.
Yours, TMN78247
Every gun is registered, and the government knows on which doors to knock to collect them all (which is why we keep saying gun registration leads to gun confiscation,) so any attempted act of defiance will result in a jail time or at minimum a fine.
New Zealanders will dutifully turn in their ARs as soon as the government announces the compensation rates and makes the turn in mandatory.
530 potential victims. Smart!
The ship is sinking. Destroy all lifeboats and turn in your life preserver immediately!
More like 530 suckers.
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