Here’s Why New Zealand’s New Gun Laws Can’t Come To U.S.

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli

Right now, the American anti-gunners are applauding New Zealand. They’re thrilled with the country for their knee-jerk reaction to last week’s mass shooting that left 49 people dead.

Many are asking why can’t those anti-gun proposals come to American shores, ostensibly to prevent future mass shootings.

Well, there are a few reasons why they can’t, but there’s one really big one.

Section 3. of the Order (effectively clarifying legislation for New Zealand’s 1983 Arms Act) rules that most semi-automatic firearms are now to be regarded as “military-style weapons.” The order declares that illegal firearms will now include:

[A] semi-automatic firearm that is capable of being used in combination with a detachable magazine (other than one designed to hold 0.22-inch or less rimfire cartridges) that is capable of holding more than 5 cartridges [and] a semi-automatic firearm that is a shotgun and that is capable of being used in combination with a detachable magazine that is capable of holding more than 5 cartridges.

Five cartridges means five rounds. And “a semi-automatic firearm that is capable of being used in combination with a detachable magazine,” means the vast majority of handguns relied upon by Americans to protect their families …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms