More of this please.
Having said that, I'm not endorsing anything in McKee's refactored Arms Act. I haven't seen the detail yet.
But I know people who are urban historical collectors, and rural gun owners, and a few that were raided and arrested in Operation 8. So despite being a committed pacifist and vegan, I don't disagree that previous versions of the Arms Act haven't got the balance right between harm reduction and respect for civil liberties.
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"The 51 shuhada ... one of the key legacies ... was to make NZ safe, particularly from the menace of the semiautomatic killing machines."
#AbdurRazzaq, Chair of Federation of Islamic Associations (in NZ), 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=cf65a0e8-c8c6-43a1-82a3-0d61c93372a4
An excellent example here of the point George Orwell was making with NewSpeak; the words used to describe something, determines the starting point for how we think about it.
A gun *is* a killing machine. The normalisation of the word "gun" obscures that.