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New Zealand Gun Owners Are Voluntarily Handing Over Semi-automatic Rifles...
newsweek.com ^ | March 18, 2019 | CHANTAL DA SILVA

Posted on 03/18/2019 6:42:11 AM PDT by PROCON

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 weapons and prevent another attack like Friday's from happening again.

"Until today, I was one of the New Zealanders who owned a semiautomatic rifle," one gun owner, farmer John Hart, wrote on Twitter. "On the farm they are a useful tool in some circumstances, but my convenience doesn't outweigh the risk of misuse.

"We don't need these in our country," he added, sharing an image of a police form registering his weapon for "destruction." "We have make sure it's #NeverAgain."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; gunturnin; nz; semiautos
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They want them to hand over their weapons and prevent another attack like Friday's from happening again.

Well then, why don't they also volunteer for castration in order to prevent future rapes?

Good grief.

1 posted on 03/18/2019 6:42:11 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; AZ .44 MAG; umgud; ...

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2 posted on 03/18/2019 6:42:45 AM PDT by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
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They don’t deserve liberty. :(


3 posted on 03/18/2019 6:43:20 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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this is a story about three twitter posts, and zero verified actual humans.

newsweek wanted to write the story badly.


4 posted on 03/18/2019 6:45:21 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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Goodbye, New Zealand. It was nice knowing you. Your prime minister is about to repress you for the insane actions of one demented person.

Notice how she wore a headscarf when she did the public act of contrition?


5 posted on 03/18/2019 6:46:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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The Drones must Drone


6 posted on 03/18/2019 6:47:01 AM PDT by butlerweave
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I call BS. Given the contents of his Twitter feed I find it unlikely in the extreme that “John Hart” owned a semiautomatic firearm.

He shows the turn-in form... with the type of firearm blanked out, no name put on the form. No photos of the alleged firearm nor the case he says he carried it in. Rest of his feed is the usual far-left nonsense on climate change and homosexuals.


7 posted on 03/18/2019 6:48:13 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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“New Zealand Gun Owners Are Voluntarily Handing Over Semi-automatic Rifles...”

However, we’ve had a tradition of NOT voluntarily handing over rifles since King George’s Redcoats demanded the arms and ammunition belonging to the residents of Lexington several centuries ago.


8 posted on 03/18/2019 6:51:08 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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newsweek wanted to write the story badly.

AND the WAPO in the thread below this one.

And right on cue, Democ-rats here will be calling on Americans to do the same....it's for the children.

9 posted on 03/18/2019 6:51:30 AM PDT by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
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The MSM lies


10 posted on 03/18/2019 6:51:47 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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I’m curious what he thinks the rifle is going to do.


11 posted on 03/18/2019 6:52:02 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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I am going to tweet,”because of the shootings in NZ, I am going to buy an M1-A1 main battle tank”.

I am sure newsweek will write a story about me.


12 posted on 03/18/2019 6:54:27 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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In other completely unrelated news: Cosmoline sales skyrocket.


13 posted on 03/18/2019 6:57:40 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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Reminds me of the idiots in 1968-69 who turned their firearms into the police because Bobby Kennedy had been shot by a Palestinian immigrant, using a .22 cal American made revolver. Kids were even urged to turn in their toy guns.

People who turned in their guns then wrote letters to the editors saying they now “lived in fear” of their still armed neighbors.

The 1968 gun control act proceeded to ban the import of small foreign made “Saturday Night Specials”.

By 1970, they were trying to ban any US made handgun that cost less than $45 dollars, a lot at that time.


14 posted on 03/18/2019 6:58:49 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Police power is one of the more frightening things about any organized government, one of which may quickly grow out-of-bounds, and is the driving force behind the adoption and implementation of every command-and-control scheme mankind has ever dreamed up.

Molon Labe. “Come and take them” has always been the one rallying cry of men who do not relish the idea of submitting to enslavement.


15 posted on 03/18/2019 7:04:58 AM PDT by alloysteel (Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. George Carlin)
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this is a story about three twitter posts, and zero verified actual humans. newsweek wanted to write the story badly.

This is the fakest of all fake news.

16 posted on 03/18/2019 7:08:15 AM PDT by Lazamataz (McCain's passing ended up being + 2 net Republican Senators. Him, and Lindsey Graham.)
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He who beats his sword into a plowshare will plow for he who does not. Just saying.


17 posted on 03/18/2019 7:09:16 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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I am happy they turned them in so quickly. It wouldn’t be long before those evil AR-15s jump up, run down the streets, and start shooting people. What morons!


18 posted on 03/18/2019 7:09:27 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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I always knew that New Zealand was not a country to move to ... the people there are okay with their government ruling them.


19 posted on 03/18/2019 7:10:30 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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They want them to hand over their weapons and prevent another attack

Because every gun owner in that country is a potential mass murderer?

Or maybe they're afraid the guns themselves will perpetrate an attack, so they must be destroyed first...

20 posted on 03/18/2019 7:11:26 AM PDT by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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