{"id":15285,"date":"2019-03-21T10:43:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T02:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=15285"},"modified":"2019-03-21T11:13:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T03:13:14","slug":"new-zealands-prime-minister-announces-ban-on-all-assault-rifles-following-massacre-under-strong-gun-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=15285","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s Prime Minister announces ban on all assault rifles following massacre under strong gun laws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"850\" height=\"504\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Jacinda-Ardern.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14543\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Jacinda-Ardern.jpg 850w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Jacinda-Ardern-300x178.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Jacinda-Ardern-768x455.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Jacinda-Ardern-600x356.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>WELLINGTON, March 21 (NNN-TELESUR) &#8211; New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday (Mar 21) that military style semi-automatics and assault rifles will be banned under stronger new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in the country&#8217;s worst mass shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ardern said she expects the new law to be in place by Apr 11 and buy-back scheme will be established for banned weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Now, six days after this attack, we are announcing a ban on all military style semi-automatics (MSSA) and assault rifles in New Zealand,&#8221; Ardern said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\n\u201cRelated parts used to convert these guns into MSSAs are also being banned, along with all high-capacity magazines.\u201d\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Zealand bans military style semi-automatics and assault rifles.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mvyftbRVdr\">https:\/\/t.co\/mvyftbRVdr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Andrew Little (@AndrewLittleMP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewLittleMP\/status\/1108553947525103617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELLINGTON, March 21 (NNN-TELESUR) &#8211; New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday (Mar 21) that military style semi-automatics and assault rifles will be banned under stronger new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in the country&#8217;s worst mass shooting. Ardern said she expects the new law to be in place by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":15294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}