Every part of the law will be scrutinized, including the restrictions that bar all but a few hundred New Zealanders from firing banned semi-automatic weapons, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee said
New Zealand's Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee speaks during a news conference in Wellington, New Zealand, on April 22.New Zealand’s government will overhaul the tighter gun laws introduced after a deadly mass shooting by a white supremacist five years ago, because they put excessive burdens on gun owners who feel vilified by law enforcement and the public, the lawmaker leading the changes said.
New Zealand drew global admiration when its then-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said six days after the massacre that her government would outlaw all semi-automatic weapons. The change was approved by 119 lawmakers with only one opposed, and sweeping reforms followed: bolstered licensing requirements, more rules for gun clubs, and the creation of a firearms registry.
McKee’s consultation was a “box ticking exercise, with a select group and a very short time for responses,” Andersen said in her e-mailed statement. The review was “without a doubt, a backdoor into giving people access to semi-automatic assault rifles again,” Cahill said. New Zealand’s gun laws were safer before the 2019 reforms, the minister said, citing the dozens of pages of information now required for a gun license as an example of changes that could deter gun owners’ compliance.
The Council of Licensed Firearms Owners said members had lost or couldn’t obtain licenses because of malicious reports from past partners – who must be interviewed as part of a person’s application – or because they had divulged depression to their doctors. Areas of flexibility should be introduced to applications, spokesperson Hugh Devereux-Mack said.
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