{"id":185379,"date":"2019-03-18T08:14:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T08:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185379"},"modified":"2019-03-21T07:23:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T07:23:52","slug":"new-zealand-mosque-shooting-cabinet-backs-gun-laws-change-within-10-days-says-arder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185379","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand mosque shooting: Cabinet backs gun laws change within 10 days, says Ardern"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Withnail \u2013 The Independent March 18, 2019<\/h1>\n
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New Zealan Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

New Zealand\u2019s cabinet has given its support to gun law changes “in principle” in the wake of the Christchurch<\/a> mosque shooting, prime minister Jacinda\u00a0Ardern\u00a0said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Further details would be announced by the time cabinet meets again next Monday, she said. Ms Ardern had vowed in the immediate aftermath of Friday’s shooting, in which 50 people were killed, that “our gun laws will change”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking at a news conference, she said that cabinet’s backing “ultimately means that within 10 days of this horrific act of terrorism we will have announced reforms which will, I believe, make our community safer”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ms Ardern\u00a0said an inquiry will look at the lead up to attack and what might have been done differently.<\/span><\/p>\n

It comes as a Christchurch gun shop owner admitting selling weapons online to 28-year-old Brenton\u00a0Tarrant, an Australian citizen who has been charged with murder over the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

At a news conference, Gun City owner David Tipple said the store sold four guns and ammunition to Mr\u00a0Tarrant through a “police-verified online mail order process.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The store “detected nothing extraordinary,” about the buyer, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

None of the guns sold to Mr Tarrant were military-style, semi-automatic weapons. Calling for gun laws to be tightened, New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said the mosque attacker used five guns, two of them semi-automatic, which were purchased with an ordinary gun license and modified.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was not clear if any of the firearms Mr\u00a0Tarrant purchased from Gun City were used in Friday’s shootings.<\/span><\/p>\n

“My staff and I are dismayed and disgusted by what happened last Friday afternoon,” Mr Tipple said. “We cannot comprehend how such despicable actions could be carried out on those at prayer in a place of worship.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Tipple said he felt no responsibility for the tragedy and refused to say whether he believed gun ownership laws should change in New Zealand, insisting a debate over guns should be held at another time.<\/span><\/p>\n

“This man wrote in his manifesto that the purpose of using a firearm was to divide us,” Mr Tipple said. “If we allow him to make changes in our ideology, in our behaviour, he’s won.”<\/span><\/p>\n

His store has been criticised for leaving out a roadside advertising billboard that shows a parent helping children with rifle target practice in the wake of the shootings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Tarrant, an Australian citizen who lived in New Zealand, appeared in court on Saturday amid strict security, shackled and wearing all-white prison clothing.<\/span><\/p>\n

He showed no emotion when the judge read one murder charge and said more charges would likely follow. The New Zealand Herald<\/em> reported Monday that he had dismissed his appointed lawyer and plans to defend himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

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With New Zealand still in shock from the shootings few will be able to justify opposing a change in gun laws. Just as happened after Hungerford, Dunblane and Port Arthur in Australia <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185549,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185379\/revisions\/185549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}