{"id":185487,"date":"2019-03-20T07:49:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T07:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185487"},"modified":"2019-03-22T07:32:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T07:32:10","slug":"christchurch-shooting-gun-owners-begin-to-hand-in-their-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185487","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch shooting: gun owners begin to hand in their weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate Lyons \u2013 The Guardian March 20, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n

New Zealanders have begun handing in their firearms to police in the wake of Friday\u2019s mass shooting in Christchurch which resulted in the deaths of at least 50 people.<\/span><\/p>\n

New Zealand police said that, as of Tuesday night, at least 37 firearms had been handed in to police officers around the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

The prime minister is expected to announce changes to gun laws<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in the coming days, including measures such as a ban on semi-automatic rifles, a plan that was flagged by her attorney general, David Parker, one day after the massacre.<\/span><\/p>\n

She emerged from a long cabinet meeting on Monday, Jacinda Ardern said her team would take the rest of the week to work out the details after agreeing to make changes \u201cin principle\u201d, adding: \u201cThese aren\u2019t simple areas of law. So that\u2019s simply what we\u2019ll be taking the time to get right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ardern encouraged people to surrender their firearms to police and advised anyone considering buying a gun to wait a few days to get some certainty on the laws before investing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs the prime minister announced, anybody wanting to surrender their firearms to police is welcome to do so,\u201d said New Zealand police, who urged people to call first and alert police they would be coming in with a weapon due to heightened security fears.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou can contact your local police station<\/strong><\/span><\/a> or your local arms officer<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to get advice on the safe transport of the firearm to police. This will also enable our staff to be aware of your arrival ahead of time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

One of those who surrendered a firearm, was John Hart, who has a 20-hectare sheep and beef farm north of Masterton.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hart, who ran as a Greens party candidate in the 2017 election, handed in his semi-automatic rifle to police on Monday in the wake of the shootings. Hart said that while the gun was useful for some tasks, it was \u201cactually too dangerous to have around as a weapon\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, it became that trade-off: is my convenience worth the risk to other people\u2019s lives by having these guns in the country? I pretty quickly realised there was no comparison. We\u2019ll cope without semi-automatic weapons, we won\u2019t cope without the people who were taken from us from these events.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Comment \u2013 March 20, 2019<\/h2>\n
John Hart is obviously setting an example for other law-abiding New Zealanders to follow. What the above reports omits to mention however, is that being a member of New Zealand\u2019s parliament he will be given special police protection anyway. Unlike the victims of the Christchurch massacre, who weren\u2019t. Ed.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just as they did after Port Arthur, Hungerford and Dunblane<\/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-185487","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\/185487","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=185487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185488,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185487\/revisions\/185488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}