Photo: Getty ImagesGun safety experts expect swift clampdowns on gun ownership after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern pledged to change the country's near 30-year-old gun laws. However, gun safety advocates have said banning semi-automatic firearms and registering all guns would be a good start. Police Association president Chris Cahill said semi-automatic weapons needed to be banned. Police said it may have been possible for him to have bought his firearms legally and then altered them, to turn them in to semi-automatic weapons. Attorney General David Parker said he supported Ms Ardern's pledge for change but the government was yet committed to banning semi-automatic weapons.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 16, 2019 18:11 UTC