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ACT MP Nicole McKee said the Government had made the wrong moves when it came to firearms reform since the March 15 attack. What we re looking at is a piece of rushed legislation, or two pieces of rushed legislation, that went through so fast that the unintended consequences of doing that are starting to be realised, and of course the effects that we re seeing are a less safer community.
McKee said licensed firearms owners felt alienated by the Government s moves to ban military style semi-automatic firearms, the type used in the March 15 terror attack.
She said gun owners had been made to feel like criminals and that had led to less safety around firearms than before the terror attack.
The government s clampdown on firearms and seizures of high-powered semi-automatic weapons has had no impact on a rise in gun crime and violence in New Zealand.
Firearms prohibited under firearm legislation on display to media at a police press conference.
Photo: RNZ / Ana Tovey
Today marks the second anniversary of the Christchurch terror attacks, in which military style semi-automatic weapons, purchased legally, were used to gun down 51 innocent worshippers.
That sparked tougher gun laws and the much debated firearms buy-back.
But in 2020, gun crime hit a new peak.
Police figures show 2399 people were charged with 4542 firearm-related offences, nearly double that of a decade earlier.
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