Brief Comments On The Changes Coming to New Zealand Gun Laws
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 8 months ago
I don’t intend to comment generally on the shooting in New Zealand. I’m sure enough has been said already, and besides, that isn’t what I wanted to focus on.
Changes are coming to New Zealand guns laws. Big ones, if you believe the PM. She’s hell bent on doing it. Apparently there is support among the general population (and read especially this comment thread), but on the other hand, New Zealand gun sales have increased since the Christchurch attack.
David Codrea observes that the already restrictive nature of gun laws didn’t do a thing to prevent the attack.
Special license endorsement firearms require a “genuine reason” for possession, “including sports shooting, hunting, and collection. Owning a firearm for self-defence is specifically excluded, and prohibited.”
New Zealand requires criminal and mental health checks with third-party character references. It has licensing and registration “of individual civilians licensed to acquire, possess, sell or transfer a firearm or ammunition.” It has domestic violence prohibitions. Compare that to the “Universal Background Check” and “Red Flag/ERPO” edicts demanded for the U.S. as “common sense.” Private sales require a license, and “The buyer of a firearm in a private sale in New Zealand is obliged to pass official background checks before taking possession.”
The very same laws, by the way, the collectivists want for America. But as we all know, stopping crime isn’t really the point of gun laws anyway.
As a bracing reminder of this, you might spend a minute rehearsing the twenty one mass shootings in Australia since their gun control laws went into effect.
And then ask yourself and your spouse, “Do we ever really want to rely on anyone else for protection of home and hearth?”
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On March 18, 2019 at 12:46 am, Ned said:
NZ is making having a copy of the livestream tape of the shooting a crime. After viewing it, I understand why – and it’s probably not what you think.
It has all the hallmarks of a false flag. Of course they want to limit viewing.
On March 18, 2019 at 7:46 am, Duke Norfolk said:
Hmmm, NZ is the prospective home of many of the “elite” when the whole thing comes crumbling down. So of course they want a nice safe place for them to retreat to. Can’t have the plebes being able to hunt them down for their manifold crimes, now can we?
On March 18, 2019 at 10:25 am, JoeFour said:
….cracks are already beginning in the official story…
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-16/evidence-indicates-link-between-north-korean-embassy-break-and-christchurch-attacks
On March 18, 2019 at 8:31 pm, Gryphon said:
Ned- Several Articles on Zerohedge.com explore the Desperate Attempts to Censor the Vids of these “Attacks”. Many good speculative ‘takes’ on the Events, and what comes through very Clearly to me is that the government feels that it MUST CONTROL THE NARRATIVE no matter what its the ‘truth’.
A standard commie/bolshevik ‘Meme’ is “Never let a good Crisis Go to Waste.”
I Doubt that the FACT that Every ‘mass shooting’ in the last 5 Years or so being Relentlessly Politicized for ‘Moar Gun Control!’ is a coincidence.