It's estimated that there are about 1.5 million guns floating around in the previously gun friendly New Zealand. The recent attacks on mosques in Christchurch brought about an intense round of buy backs, a move that was heavily lauded by American anti-gun politicians.
However, something that may not have been thought through by the NZ government before their knee jerk reaction banning guns, is that as of this writing not even 800 guns have been turned in.
Monday, July 15, 2019
Strange twist of fate
Apparently, something like 99.9+% of firearms in New Zealand have disappeared in an epidemic of overturned canoe incidents.
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800 people feel like fools.
On the other side of the Tasman, it's rumoured that a similarly large quantity of firearms burrowed their way under fallen trees.
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