Posted on 04/01/2019 1:18:07 PM PDT by servo1969
Full Title: Following Christchurch Shootings, New Zealanders Have Voluntarily Surrendered a Total of 37 Guns Out of an Estimated 1.2 Million
"I want to remind people, you can surrender your gun to the police at any time. In fact I have seen reports that people are in fact already doing this. I applaud that effort, and if you are thinking about surrendering your weapon, I would encourage you to do so."
After the mosque attacks in Christchurch where 50 people were murdered, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the government would move quickly to tighten existing gun laws.
Ahead of the new laws, Ardern urged gun owners to voluntarily surrender their firearms. As of March 20th, a whole 37 guns had been surrendered out of an estimated 1.2 million.
Buzzfeed reported:
A few New Zealand gun owners have begun voluntarily surrendering their firearms to local police in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings last week that left at least 50 people dead.
New Zealand police said that as of Tuesday night, 37 firearms had been surrendered to police nationwide. They did not provide a breakdown of how many people owned those guns, the types of firearms, or the districts where the guns were surrendered.
New Zealand has an estimated 1.2 million guns registered to civilians, according to the 2017 Small Arms Survey. That's about 1 gun for every 4 people. In the US, it's estimated there is more than one gun per person.
A day after the mass shooting at the two mosques in Christchurch, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that her government intends to change gun laws in the country, including a potential ban on the type of military-style semiautomatic weapons that were allegedly used by the suspect in the shootings.
Ardern also encouraged New Zealand's gun owners to surrender their weapons.
"To make our community safer, the time to act is now," Ardern said on Monday. "I want to remind people, you can surrender your gun to the police at any time. In fact I have seen reports that people are in fact already doing this. I applaud that effort, and if you are thinking about surrendering your weapon, I would encourage you to do so."
Ardern acknowledged that tightening gun laws in the country where gun ownership is common in the rural and farming communities would create "a small degree of uncertainty among some gun owners who possess guns for legitimate reasons."
She assured gun owners that the forthcoming gun law changes were not directed at them.
37.
I love New Zealand.
New Zealand tends to be pretty Liberal....You find that in most all former British colonies except the US...
You’re right!
There was an article a week ago claiming “a number of gun owners” had turned in their guns. Now we know the number.
Well, duh. People are going to need them when the muslim population exceeds 5% and they start becoming more rapey and rioty
NZ has an unusually large population of duck hunters and their skiffs are notoriously unstable.
37 too many
In the US, it’s estimated there is more than one gun per person
Ummm that might be a lot off in my neck of the woods...
It can be useful - knowing who the sheep (and potential collaborators) are...
GOOD FOR THEM!
Tell those bastards to pound sand! Give ‘em up and the muzzies will have you helpless.
Remember this is the government that gave Hillary millions recently.
Kiwi’s are NOT stupid.
Most will tell you that their Gov IS stupid.
Back in 2001, I met a nice couple from NZ in Bali.
They told me most NZ voters had given up voting in elections.
The feeling is whatever they vote on, is ignored by the Political Class.
Kind of like Brexit.
Maoris make up 15% of NZ population. They pride themselves as warriors.
When will the whitebread NZ police be coming for Maoris’ guns?
Voluntarily giving up one’s ability to try defending your home, family, community, and self — would be insane. Sheer insanity
Precursor to what would happen in the USA. Uh uh gun grabbers. Until politicians can guarantee no bad guys, including bad politicians, will ever harm or otherwise threaten another citizen for the rest of time, we are going to keep our God given natural right to own tools of self protection thank you.
None of the 47 were Muslims, by the way.
IMUA !
See? Gun laws and citizen cooperation works. (/sarc as though needed).
The population of New Zealand is about the same as South Carolina. I bet there are more than 1.6M guns in the palmetto state vs. Kiwi (fruit or bird..?) land.
(Bird. I know)
Could be a bit of a salesmanship issue in “We, your government, have decided that you can’t have what you have anymore. Give it to us.” I could see getting a little cranky over that.
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