New Zealand's government on Thursday launched a multimillion-dollar, six-mo...
WELLINGTON - New Zealand’s government on Thursday launched a multimillion-dollar, six-month “buy-back” scheme to compensate owners of powerful but newly banned semi-automatic weapons prohibited in the wake of deadly attacks on two mosques in the Southern city of Christchurch.
Parliament passed the gun reform law - the first substantial changes to the country’s gun laws in decades - by a vote of 119 to 1 in April. Existing gun laws had provided for a standard “A-category” gun license covering semi-automatics limited to seven shots.
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