Meanwhile, over at Cheaper Than Dirt, someone is tooling up the USB drive that contains their pricing algorithm for hundred-dollar PMAGs.
No one is saying “as goes New Zealand, so goes the world” but now is not a bad time to make sure you have your lifetime supply of [mags/receivers/etc] checked off your list.
It’s still never good to see yet one more country in the world succumb to the false promise of trading liberty for safety.
I can hear the next democrat President saying in his/her emergency address, “Just like our friends in Australia and New Zealand responded with common sense in the wake of a similar tragedy…”
Here’s an extremely important detail that I read:
“One of the challenges facing New Zealand as it seeks to close loopholes in its gun laws and recover the now-banned weapons, is that it does not have a centralised register of guns in circulation.”
You’ve heard it before. Registration leads to confiscation. Never forget that, and never believe (or trust) anyone who denies it.
UnbreakableAZ
There’s a persistent myth that confiscating ugly guns ended massacresin Australia.
The reality is otherwise: massacres are still committed, but now other weapons — usually fire — are used. The murder rate — and the suicide rate as well — were not affected. But murders ad suicides using guns are somehow worse than murders and suicides committed with bottle of gasoline, ropes, knives, flight-attempts from parking garages or bridges…
The next mass murder in New Zealand isn’t likely to involve a gun — such acts were vanishingly rare before this — it will most likely involve a bomb or a truck. Or both.
Of course, that will stop neither the hoplophobe Democrats nor the bottom-feeder trash like CTD from attempting to profit from this.
People forget that the worst mass murder in NY state history killed 99 people and the weapon of choice was $1 worth of gasoline (Happyland Fire).
There have been several mass shootings in Australia in recent years, using a combination of legal and illegal guns. The government uses a statistical lie to claim there haven’t been: In the Australia system, the murder (and some other crimes, I forget which) doesn’t count statistically unless someone is charged with it. In every recent mass shooting there, the killer has committed suicide or been shot by police, so there was no one to charge with the crime. Presto! it doesn’t count…
England does something similar, so their murder and violent crime rates appear lower than they actually are.
And every single one of them continually fail to acknowledge that banning stuff does nothing to inhibit criminal acts. Neve has and never will, It simply makes criminal acts easier to accomplish, After all, what’s the downside? The simply do and say this to shoe their constituents that “they are dong something” however falsely though out it may be.
My question is; so if “Every semi-automatic weapon used in the terror attack on Friday will be banned,” Ardern promised, adding that the legislation will be “drafted and introduced in urgency.” Does that mean only those two weapons used in the attack are banned? Sounds like that’s what he said and inferred. Meaning that anyone who own weapons that are similar but not the same ones (or those two, cause those can be the only two) are free to keep theirs. Makes sense to me….
I don’t think the NZ laws are confined to ‘military style’ firearms. From what I heard, ANY rifle / shotgun / pistol that can accept a magazine that exceeds five rounds is subject to the new laws. Most tube feds (especially in rimfire) will exceed five rounds. I think the NZ will allow tubes that accept 10 (rimfire only). The new laws.
A semi-automatic firearm capable of being used with a detachable magazine which holds more than five cartridges.
A semi-automatic shotgun capable of being used with a detachable magazine which holds more than five cartridges
Pistols can accept high-cap magazines – its on the list. Revolvers are likely safe if its a five shot cyclinder – maybe not if it is one of the more recent models with more rounds.
Further future legislation on the table –
Tighten firearms licensing and penalties – Impose greater controls over a range of ammunition – Address a number of other issues relevant to special interest groups such as international sports shooters and professional pest controllers, such as DoC -.
Futureproof the Arms Act to ensure it is able to respond to developments in technology and society.
This was taken from this link.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/explainer-how-are-new-zealands-gun-laws-changing
Very devious language – look at the details.
Meanwhile I just picked up a CZ Scorpion EVO and added an additional 2k rounds of 9mm.
If New Zealand and Australia ever face invasion again as they feared in World War II, will they do as England did once and beg for Americans to voluntarily send privately owned firearms to help defend England?I
The world is a different place now. I for one won t have spare weapons for those who can’t prepare or think clearly.
What is ironic is that it took WWII for Australians to realize how vulnerable they were, being way out there away from other sympathetic countries. They had very limited numbers of defenders, and not much of an army, air force or navy to defend the country if they were invaded by land. That was why the country began allowing large numbers of immigrants to become Australian citizens after WWII.
More people die as a result of vehicular homicide than firearms.
Which model of car do they plan to ban?
Not planning to do that?
There’s a surprise!
Mass murder using cars, bombs, and particularly fire is much easier and cheaper than using a gun – as mentioned above, fires have killed many more people than guns have at one time.
And I just bought four more 80% lowers…
Now I need the Freedom rifle kits from Palmetto State to join those lowers in deep storage.
you know, what i don’t get is that think by taking semi-autos off the streets they’ll stop a revolt when they finally go too far. don’t they realize we don’t need semi-autos to take them out? or that they filled every cop car with just the tools we might need? or that most of the military is fed up with their crap too? hell, the teamsters could just take a two week vacation from bringing in the food to the cities and cause utter chaos. we don’t need anything to defeat them, we just need to STOP doing what we do every day to keep them alive, the same things they look down their self righteous noses at us for doing.