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.
Well done, Kiwis!
They’ve only just introduced the ban legislation:
http://legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2019/0125/latest/d9580345e2.html
They were all lost in boating accidents.
Do not give the government your firearms.
That could be about correct in my community. A quick informal check at church revealed most of us age advantaged males were packing just one gun.
I hope they are never without protection when they need it.
Bueller.......
LOL. I guess the true patriots there think they may have to “water” the Tree of Liberty eventually. Good for them.
Darwin’s IQ test: A group of citizens are murdered with a certain type of legal weapon: The proper social response is to (1) for citizens to disarm themselves from the same type of weapon, or, (2) keep the weapon for self defense?
Molon labe?
Pruning aint gonna cut it. Cut it down, dig it up, plant a new one from the seed stock we already have.
Molon Labe Kiwis.
Molon Labe
NZ better get ready for problems.
“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.”
Just for the fun of it, here’s a little story. In South Carolina, I pulled my car into a dealer’s garage for an oil change. The fellow in front of me told the service manager to wait a second while he emptied the trunk of its contents. He pulled out two rifles and two handguns.
Just suggesting that your 1.6M guns in SC might be a bit low.
Cheers.
Clem was huntin’ upstate along the North Carolina, Georgia border. He had just shot a possum and was putting it in his game bag when the game warden approached. The game warden says, “Whatcha got there son?”
Clem says, “Just doin’ a little huntin’ . I got me a couple squirrels, a rabbit and this here possum.” The game warden grabs the possum, sticks his finger up its hind end, sniffs it and says, “This here possum is from is from Georgia, you got a Georgia hunting license boy?”
Clem pulls out his Georgia license and hands it over. The game warden then grabbed a squirrel out of his bag, sticks a finger up its kazoo, sniffs it and says, “This here squirrel is from South Carolina, you got a South Carolina hunting license boy?”
Clem pulls out his South Carolina license and hands it over. The game warden then grabbed the rabbit, stuck his finger up its backdoor, sniffed it and says, This here rabbit is from North Carolina, you got a North Carolina hunting license boy?”
Clem pulls out his North Carolina hunting license and hands it over. The game warden is finally satisfied that his paperwork is in order. He gives it all back to Clem and says, “Where are you from boy?”
Clem pulls his pants down, turns around and says, “Why don’t you tell me!”
:-)
And on a humorous note, building in New Zealand has come to a halt because there’s no PVC pipe in the stores.
Because guy owners are buying it up to use to bury their firearms in rather than surrender them to the government.
To say the least. Islam has made significant inroads there among the Maori - and then there was that scimitar-rattling from Erdogan, who gloatingly reminded the Kiwis of their military losses at Gallipoli. Seems like both sides are quietly seething.
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