One year after the Christchurch massacre, gun control has stalled in New Zealand
Within a week, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that all military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles would be banned. On April 10, every lawmaker in New Zealand's parliament bar one, voted for the first of two rounds of changes to the country's gun laws, which banned semi-automatic firearms, magazines and parts.
But after a weapon is fired comes the recoil. The nearly unanimous support Ardern had in the aftermath of the massacre has now faded, and both the New Zealand gun lobby and Ardern's political opposition have taken issue with the country's gun-control legislation, including the proposed gun registry. Alexander Gillespie, professor of international law at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, says the post-Christchurch legislation"was rushed through very quickly," but that"if you have ever had a time of urgency, this was it, because New Zealand had never had a massacre like that before."
That number remains in question. A 2019 government-commissioned assessment by consulting firm KPMG estimated that the number of now-banned guns still in private hands in New Zealand could be between 50,000 and 170,000.
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