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    Semi-automatic guns sold by Defence Force being used by gangs

    Sounds like some of those old SLRs are turning up in the the hands of gang members.

    I wonder if any were those sold by Dale Jenner or John Mabey?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12178046

    Semi-automatic guns sold by the Defence Force to the public in the 1990s, are turning up in the hands of gangs and organised criminal groups.

    More than 170 military-style, semi-automatic guns had been seized by police in the past five years.

    More had been taken in each of the last three years than in any year in the past decade.

    In a briefing to the Minister last year police said they were concerned that they had seized military-style guns from gangs and organised crime groups during searches.

    They said gangs were starting to use a different type of firearm - the high-risk military-style guns used in massacres in the US.

    The director of Otago University's National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Kevin Clements, said these guns getting into criminals' hands was hugely concerning.

    He said the guns had a huge lethal capacity in the hands of gangs and could cause mayhem.

    "If the police are capturing larger and larger numbers of them then it means this [gangs and organised criminal groups] is where they're actually located."

    Firearm owners said an amnesty or seizure of military-style guns would still leave them in the black market.

    The Council of Licensed Firearms Owners said it was a problem that military-style, semi-automatic guns were in the hands of criminals but was adamant there were legitimate, safe uses for them when in the hands of licensed people.

    Council vice-president Michael Dowling said buy-backs had a whole lot of issues and wouldn't even target the right people.

    "So if we took access off those who haven't done anything wrong, removed the firearms from the system and say it's all fixed, we still have illegal importation and the existing stocks."

    - Newstalk ZB

 

 

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