From One News: 15/3/21
NZ sees rise in gun crime despite Government clampdown after terrorist attack.
The Government's clampdown on firearms and seizures of high-powered semi-automatic weapons has had no impact on a rise in gun crime and violence in New Zealand.
In 2020, gun crime hit a new peak.
Police figures show 2399 people were charged with 4542 firearm-related offences, nearly double that of a decade earlier.
Act MP Nicole McKee said gun owners had been made to feel like criminals and that had led to less safety around firearms than before the terror attack.
Sporting Shooters Association president Neville Dodd said the police had lost a huge amount of trust from firearms owners over the past two years.
"As a result, 241,900 New Zealanders who've been carefully vetted, unlike Tarrant, alienated, no longer support the police and that to me is the biggest tragedy of all because we had a very good rapport with police, and that's gone."
He said the police never admitted they should not have given the Christchurch terrorist a firearms licence in the first place, an error that the Royal Commission suggested could have prevented the attack from happening altogether.
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