There was originally no illegal weapons that the suspected killer used to kill 50 people in bönestunden in Christchurch on Friday. But the weapons had been modified to the illegal, more powerful semi-automatic rifles. And so, as the weapons were found when the 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant was stopped, they were far from legal, according to the New Zealand police commissioner Mike Bush.
Now, two days after the masskjutningarna there are voices from different sides – both political and civil – to strengthen the vapenlagarna.
said shortly after the attacks that she wants to change the country’s gun laws, and her government has expressed that they want to ban halvautomatvapen. The cabinet meeting on Monday to discuss how easy it is to modify the legal weapons to more powerful military weapons, which today is unlawful.
It is not very difficult to get a firearms license in New Zealand, even if the process requires both an interview and a poliskoll. The former is of good character, that the suspect is the offender in this case, have usually no problem to get the license. Nearly a quarter of a million people have it.
Brenton Tarrant got his gun license in 2017 and was a member of a shooting club in Milburn outside the city of Dunedin, five hours south of Christchurch, not far from where he lived. When his weapon was found after the terrorist attacks was both the weapon tray covered in scrawled notes, with references to the early massacres and far-right people.
in New Zealand, Chris Cahill, believes that all sorts of semi-automatic weapons must be banned. He also calls for a register, according to the news site stuff.nz.
– It is far too easy to get guns in New Zealand. If someone started to build up an arsenal and there was some suspicion around it, so should the police be able to have access to the information.
In neighboring Australia are already all semi-automatic weapons illegal then masskjutningen in Port Arthur in 1996 and now, many hope that New Zealand will go the same way. In Australia, there are also registers and hamid believe that it would have been much more difficult to get hold of the kind of weapons in Australia.
and with the representatives of vapenföreningar think that it may be a good idea to look over vapenlagarna.
” We are open for a discussion on the changing laws. We are not going to lobby against, ” says Nicole McKee, secretary of the coalition for skjutvapenägare.
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