New gun laws will make New Zealand safer after mosque massacre, says Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern by char_greenfield TSWestbrook
“We detected nothing extraordinary about the license holder. He was a brand new purchaser, with a brand new license,” he said.
New Zealand, a country of only 5 million people, has an estimated 1.5 million firearms. The minimum age for a gun license is 16, and 18 to own a semi-automatic weapon. Only firearm owners are licensed, not weapons, so there is no monitoring of how many weapons a person may possess. “On behalf of all New Zealanders, we grieve together. We are one. They are us,” she wrote in the book.
“We’ve been working fairly hard through the night to ensure the process of returning the deceased to their loved ones is taking place expediently,” he said. “But some people have said because it was not a battlefield it is okay to wash the body. But it is at the discretion of the family,” said Mo. He asked to be identified by just one name.
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