New Zealand’s Gun Problem – 2 Year Old Child Killed with Sawn Off Shotgun

Today we bring to you that sad news that a two year old child has lost her life after being shot with a sawn off shotgun. There are believed to be more than 1 million firearms in circulation in New Zealand, and not a single one of them is registered. Authorities have, quite simply, lost…

Mail Order Guns in NZ, Easy As Taking Candy from a Baby

An investigative journalist (yes, there are one or two left in New Zealand) has exposed a flaw in New Zealand’s gun controls by buying a mail-order .22 rifle without a firearms licence. Heather du Plessis-Allan purchased the rifle from a NZ company that bills itself as the  “world’s largest gun store” using nothing more than…

11 Year Old Boy Fatally Shot in Kaingaroa Forest

New Zealand’s lax gun control laws are under scrutiny again after police revealed that the male person who died yesterday in a hunting incident was an 11 year old boy. The child died as a weapon was being unloaded at the end of a hunt. Hunting permits for the forest are issued by First Security, but a spokeswoman for the…