In New Zealand is more than 50,000 firearms have been handed in to the authorities, after våbenlovgivningen was recently tightened.
The writing abcnews.com.
the Government of New Zealand has banned a number of semi-automatic weapons in the wake of the massacre in Christchurch earlier in the year, where a man shot and killed 51 people in two mosques.
the Citizens of New Zealand have subsequently had the opportunity to sell their illegal weapons back to the state. It has 33.000 våbenejere chosen to do. It has cost the state over 100 million new zealand dollars, equivalent to 445 million Danish kroner.
for More than 5000 weapons have been submitted by the “safe passage”, where citizens anonymously to hand over their weapons.
Government of New Zealand states that the country, after the filing is now a safer place. They claim at the same time, that it will now be harder for criminals to get your hands on semi-automatic weapons, as they had the majority of their weapons from the gun, which is now no longer allowed to sell the type of weapon.
It will be criticized by represented the interests Council of Licensed Firearms Owners. They claim that two-thirds of the illegal weapons still in circulation. Supposedly because the new zealand våbenejere have lost faith in the government and do not believe that they are being compensated properly.
– They are never come over, to mydinghederne accusing them of somehow being responsible for a heinous terrorist act. It makes the never, says talskvinden for the Council of Licensed Firearms Owners, Nicole Mckee.
New Zealand’s government is now considering to tighten the law further, among other things, by creating a sporingsregister for all firearms.
