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New Zealand prime minister: We’re banning all “military-style” semiautomatic(T)
hotair.com ^ | 3/21/2019 | unknown

Posted on 03/21/2019 3:47:47 PM PDT by rktman

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New Zealand prime minister: We’re banning all “military-style” semiautomatic weapons and assault rifles

It’s not just how comprehensive the ban is that makes it draconian, notes Philip Klein, it’s the fact that it’s coming straight from the top, by virtual decree of the prime minister and her cabinet. Supporters note that New Zealand’s parliament stands foursquare behind her, with even the major opposition party in favor of the ban, but it’s difficult politically for the opposition to get crosswise with a country’s leader after a major terror attack. 9/11 gave us the Patriot Act and the Iraq war, two initiatives that drew plenty of Democratic support if only because the minority party didn’t want to seem “soft” on malefactors. Now here’s Jacinda Ardern yanking broad classes of weapons out of the public’s hands with no constitutional provisions to stop her and little political will in the legislature, for whatever reason.

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KEYWORDS: 1moretime; banglist; no2nd
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To: dynachrome
Some one we know "blinged" up a Ruger. Go figure. 💎
21 posted on 03/21/2019 4:23:12 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Now, as a good muzzie wannabe, she needs to resign her position and put her husband in charge, she then has moslem approved female genital surgery and happily accepts any beatings her husband gives her.


22 posted on 03/21/2019 4:24:05 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: rktman

The NZ caliphate has begun.


23 posted on 03/21/2019 4:24:53 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: rktman

“We’re banning all “military-style” semiautomatic weapons”

SOOO, no more M1 Garand looking guns, or M1 carbines, or M14 rifles, or 1911 .45 cal sidearms. Just about any weapon can be described as “military-style.”


24 posted on 03/21/2019 4:26:59 PM PDT by Ed Condon (subliminal messages here in invisible ink)
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To: rktman

It’s not blinged up unless it sports a chainsaw!


25 posted on 03/21/2019 4:28:37 PM PDT by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all.)
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To: dynachrome

:-)


26 posted on 03/21/2019 4:29:38 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Knee jerk stupidity. Been there. It’s a lovely country but they haven’t a clue.


27 posted on 03/21/2019 4:32:11 PM PDT by mort56
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To: rktman

This is what happens when liberal women ruin/run a country.


28 posted on 03/21/2019 4:37:26 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: rktman

This is some dumb sh*t. A non-military “style” will kill ya just as dead as a “military style” rifle will.


29 posted on 03/21/2019 4:41:40 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: rktman

Please, people, ask the question: If there is no legitimate self defense reason to have ‘military style assault weapons’, why do the police have them?

Then ask why the police get to be better protected than the people, especially with weapons which are defined by the left as being ‘only useful for killing people.’

Then ask why there’s police death squads, if the leftist theory is correct.

I still want a constitutional amendment that requires all laws to be applied equally to all citizens and their government, with all conflicts solved to the benefit of personal rights.


30 posted on 03/21/2019 4:43:05 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: rktman

Kiwis must have French blood somewhere in their veins. 23 & me.


31 posted on 03/21/2019 4:44:45 PM PDT by Kudsman (Im trying to love the tolerant left. They make it very hard to do.)
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To: rktman

So they’re banning a “style” of firearm? A look? Or are they banning ALL semi autos?


32 posted on 03/21/2019 4:51:48 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: rktman

All American Liberals/Leftists are so jealous. They wish they could do it here.


33 posted on 03/21/2019 4:59:33 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: rktman

So...the law-abiding citizens will give them up.

And the bad guys....?

Nevermind.


34 posted on 03/21/2019 5:03:49 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: rktman

Is the NZ gov going to give up any guns too?

Do you know why Hitler didn’t invade Switzerland in WWII?


35 posted on 03/21/2019 5:05:15 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: chris37

“Guess that’s what happens to those whose rights originate from men.”

God gave them different rights?


36 posted on 03/21/2019 5:05:20 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: rktman

So much for New Zealand being an escape during the coming globalist wars.


37 posted on 03/21/2019 5:07:43 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: TexasGator

No, He didn’t give them any as you can clearly see, otherwise they would still have them.


38 posted on 03/21/2019 5:10:16 PM PDT by chris37 (No wall? No vote.)
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To: A strike

She wasn’t elected. She was presented by the media a few months before the election as a wimmin’s leader. Got a third of the votes from those most impressed with a pretty face. The conservative party was just shy of winning the election by a few percent which triggered multi-party coalitions. Two weeks after the election she was announced as the P.M. by a coalition of losers. The king making party got just 4 percent of the vote.
Most NZrs feel totally ripped off after the most experienced and trusted party failed to win with just under 50% of the vote.

She has never held a position of responsibility in her life before this. Her only job outside of politics was as a part time assistant in a takeaway.


39 posted on 03/21/2019 5:31:36 PM PDT by Dancing Rick
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To: Secret Agent Man
Man China will have it 1000 times less hard to takeover NZ than Taiwan.

Since they disbanded their Military how are they going to defend themselves from any invaders. Soon enough they'll be conquered by an outside force and cease to exist as an independent country. But they can feel good about it.

40 posted on 03/21/2019 5:39:55 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (Time for all patriotic Americans to boycott liberals and all SJW/PC bullsh*t.)
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