Friday, July 5, 2019

New Zealand Compliance Rate for Gun Buyback Program Stands at Less than 1 Percent

 

The gun buyback program in New Zealand is not progressing as officials had hoped. After the county’s parliament banned most semi-automatic weapons in the wake of a deadly massacre, less than one percent of the now-prohibited firearms have been turned in.

New Zealand gun owners were not required to register AR-type rifles prior to the ban, so law enforcement officers aren’t sure precisely how many “military-style semi-automatic weapons” need to be turned in. But police told New Zealand radio host Ryan Bridge that “probably hundreds of thousands” of guns are now prohibited, and the Washington Post reported this week that only 700 firearms have been voluntarily surrendered.

5 comments:

  1. No one said Kiwi's are stupid. Just their poly's like this twunt.

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  2. How do you BUY BACK anything you never purchased or owned? Even Obama hold us, "no one wants to take your guns". But now, Democrst politicians call for MANDATORY buy backs where they set the price and take them if you don't sell. Why don't they just come out and say they want to take them? It's an open declaration of criminality and sedition against our unalienable and Constitutional enumerated rights! --Ron W
    --Ron W

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    1. Why don't they just come out and say they want to take them?

      It would be simpler for all concerned.

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