New Zealand Gun Owners Refuse to Turn-in Their Guns!

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Noncompliance Kneecaps New Zealand's Gun Control Scheme

As of last week, only around 700 weapons had been turned over.

By J.D. Tuccille
Reason.com
July 8th. 2019

Once again, responding to a horrendous crime by inflicting knee-jerk, authoritarian restrictions on innocent people proves to be an ineffective means of convincing people to obey. Specifically, New Zealand's government—which also stepped up censorship and domestic surveillance after bloody attacks on two Christchurch mosques earlier this year—is running into stiff resistance to new gun rules from firearms owners who are slow to surrender now-prohibited weapons and will probably never turn them in.

Officials should have seen it coming.

"Police are anticipating a number of people with banned firearms in their possession won't surrender them," Stuff reported at the end of May, based on internal government documents.

As of last week, only around 700 weapons had been turned over. There are an estimated 1.5 million guns—with an unknown number subject to the new prohibition on semiautomatic firearms—in the country overall.

[DEVIL DOG]

Good for them if this story is true. Time to hit the ballot box & get rid of the idiots running that country. Maybe they can move all of the liberals to one side of the island & make it flip over. ( Hank Johnson )

Hell, there's probably 1.5M guns in Wayne County.