Posted July 10, 2019 10:00 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Following the mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, the government there enacted an assault weapon ban. While gun owners get furious over the nomenclature used for these bans, anti-gunners are beating the war drums in the media asking why we can’t enact a law just like this here in the United States.

However, New Zealand is having some trouble actually enforcing the new law.

New Zealand has seen only a fraction of weapons surrendered after its government passed restrictive gun control measures, including a buyback program, following March’s mosque shootings.

About 1,000 guns estimated to qualify as prohibited have reportedly been turned over to New Zealand authorities as part of the country’s gun buyback program as of July 4, according to Radio New Zealand.

Out of 1.2 to 1.5 million guns in New Zealand, the government said an estimated 13,500 firearms are military style semi-automatics, reported Reuters.

That’s just over seven percent of firearms they believe are there. That estimate may be wrong, however. You see, New Zealand didn’t have a registration scheme in place, so not only do they not know who had guns, they’re likely not even sure how …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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