The New Zealand government buys more than 10,000 weapons from its citizens to avoid a repeat of the massacre of mosques

The New Zealand government has bought more than 10,000 firearms in less than a month, as part of a plan to buy back weapons after the Christ Church massacre last May.

“In mid-July, the government of New Zealand launched a six-month, multi-million dollar plan to buy semi-automatic weapons from citizens as part of its measures to prevent a repeat of the massacre of mosques,” The Guardian reported.

New Zealand Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Police Minister Stuart Nash said in a joint statement that the government had allocated NZ $ 208 million to compensate the owners of these weapons by up to 95% of their original price and gave them until December 20 to deliver them. 10,242 firearms were handed over to the police,

An additional 1,269 weapons were handed over under the amnesty, which means no questions were asked by the police about when or how the landlords obtained the banned weapons. New Zealand police said 90 weapons collection events were organized across the country, attended by more than 7,000 people. Owner of firearms.

Unlike the United States, where citizens have the right to own semi-automatic weapons to protect themselves, the majority of New Zealand arms owners say they have weapons for sport, recreation and hunting, yet many after the massacre voluntarily surrendered their weapons to the police.

The total number of firearms in New Zealand by citizens is estimated to be between 1.2 million and 1.5 million, and the government has given owners of the banned weapons until 20 December to surrender their weapons, or face a prison sentence of between two and five years. In El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, and dozens of people were killed. New Zealand Prime Minister

“There was a massacre in Australia and it changed its laws,” she said.

Australian Brenton Tarrant, who believes in the theory of supremacy of white, launched an attack on two mosques in the city of “Christchurch” New Zealand last March, with weapons bought legally in New Zealand, killing 51 people and wounding 40 others seriously.
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