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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Charlotte Graham-McLay

New Zealand will remove police from gun licensing but near-total semiautomatics ban to remain

New Zealand Gun Law Change - (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

New Zealand’s government will end the involvement of police officers in regulating gun ownership, an official said Tuesday as she announced sweeping firearms law reforms.

The move is intended to ease tensions between the gun regulator and firearms owners, which have been fraught since the agency's creation following a shooting massacre at two New Zealand mosques.

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