New Zealand announced a massive gun buyback program in the wake of a mass shooting in Christchurch, one of the country’s most populous cities. But despite a wave of praise from gun control activists across the globe, the program, a new report says, was a miserable failure that collected a mere fraction of the number of illegal weapons owned by New Zealanders.
Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern announced the “assault weapons” buyback program just days after a mass shooting at a Christchurch mosque and Islamic center that claimed 51 lives and injured 49 more, and it accompanied an “assault weapons” ban, though which guns the ban and buyback covered wasn’t totally clear.
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