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NZ PM Announces Ban On ‘All Military-style Semi-automatic Weapons’

WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday announced that the country will immediately ban “all military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles” after last week’s terrorist attack in Christchurch that killed 50 people.

While addressing the reporters, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern revealed that all semi-automatic weapons which are military-esque will be banned very soon by the government along with all assault rifles.

“We will ban all high-capacity magazines. We will ban all parts with the ability to convert semiautomatic, or any other type of firearm, into a military-style semi-automatic weapon. In short, every semi-automatic weapon used in the terrorist attack on Friday will be banned in this country”, the premier said.

It is to be noted that this announcement by the NZ government comes after recent March 15 terrorist attack carried out by a white supremacist who, according to Jacinda Ardern, modified his guns’ capacity in the mosque shooting massacre by using 30-round magazines “essentially turning them into military-style semi-automatic weapons.”