New Zealand PM promises tighter gun laws within 10 days - News Summed Up

New Zealand PM promises tighter gun laws within 10 days


New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says reforms to the country's gun laws will be announced within 10 days following the shootings at two Christchurch mosques that left 50 people dead and dozens injured last week. (Jorge Silva/Reuters)At a news conference, David Tipple, the owner of Gun City, a Christchurch gun store, said the store sold four guns and ammunition to Tarrant through a "police-verified online mail order process." (Jorge Silva/Reuters)In vowing to tighten gun laws, Ardern has said the attacker used five guns, two of them semi-automatic, which were purchased with an ordinary gun licence and modified. Canada mulls reformsIn Canada, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale suggested the deadly mass shooting in New Zealand will spur parliamentarians to take a careful look at Canada's own gun laws. Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Ralph Goodale said on Monday that the tragedy in Christchurch would prompt Canada to reconsider its own gun laws.


Source: CBC News March 18, 2019 20:55 UTC



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