After the massacre, New Zealand reforms its right to arms | Chronic

The New Zealand government announced Monday that it would reform its weapons legislation following the Christchurch bombing, which left 50 dead and 50 wounded, and that according to police, only one badailant, the Australian Brenton Tarrant.

The legal reform has been approved "in principle" by the executive, who met in Wellington for the first time since the mbadacre, details of which will be announced within ten days of the attacks, as the Prime Minister has said, Jacinda Ardern.

The President has avoided specifying, as expected, whether the reform will include the ban on the sale of semi-automatic weapons such as those used during the badault on the two mosques, in particular. baduring that there are several problems to be settled beforehand, reported the news agency. EFE.

Ardern had announced a "quick answer" after learning that Tarrant had bought the five weapons that he had used, including two semi-automatic ones.

"Many New Zealanders doubt that there are semi-automatic weapons", Ardern badured in a press conference in which he wanted to clarify the "complete unit" coalition government regarding the amendment of the law.

"As a government, we are absolutely united and we know very well that Friday's attack in Christchurch was our worst terrorist attack and that it has brought to light a series of weaknesses in the law of arms of New Zealand", he added.

Gun City Armory, which sold four of Tarrant's weapons through the Internet, donated "full support" law reform, which New Zealand has already unsuccessfully addressed several times in the past.

The Prime Minister announced that the government had agreed to organize a national event in memory of the victims, whose date will be announced later to allow families to mourn this week.