NZ bans 'military-style' semi-automatic weapons after mosque terror attack
Thursday 21/March/2019 - 02:44 PM
Military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault
rifles will be banned in New Zealand, the country's prime minister has said.
Jacinda Ardern also announced a ban on high-capacity
magazines and parts that can modify a gun to produce semi-automatic or
automatic fire, Sky News reported Thursday.
It comes less than a week after a white supremacist
gunman used such weapons to kill 50 people at two Christchurch mosques.
Ardern said the attack showed the weakness of New
Zealand's gun laws.
The PM said the attacker had mainly used two assault
rifles in the massacre, purchased legally and "enhanced using
30-plus-round magazines".
"While the modification of these guns was
illegal, it was done easily through a simple online purchase," said Ardern.
