Posted May 15, 2019 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Americans are fortunate. While people in pretty much every other nation on Earth are heavily restricted in their right to keep and bear arms, we still enjoy a fair bit of freedom.

Don’t get me wrong, we’re still far more restricted than our Founding Fathers would have been happy with, but by the status of the rest of the world, we’re relatively free when it comes to guns. While machineguns are heavily restricted and, thanks to federal law, rare enough to cost a small fortune, it’s still possible for an individual to own one or more in most places, for example. You can own explosives, though also with a fair bit of red tape involved.

In a lot of places, though, even the ubiquitous AR-15 is unobtainable.

Until recently, though, New Zealand wasn’t one of those places. Now, they are. The terrorist attack that killed dozens of Muslim worshippers in Christchurch, New Zealand sparked the government to ban such rifles, turning thousands of law-abiding gun owners into criminals overnight.

Now, the prime minister who made that happen has decided to prattle on about how she doesn’t understand why Americans aren’t going to do the same thing.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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