{"id":29774,"date":"2021-03-15T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/15\/new-zealand-ardern-flags-further-gun-control-reforms-after-firearms-charges-peak"},"modified":"2021-03-15T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T03:45:00","slug":"new-zealand-ardern-flags-further-gun-control-reforms-after-firearms-charges-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29774","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand: Ardern flags further gun control reforms after firearms charges peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says 2020 police statistics have only reinforced government\u2019s commitment to crackdown <\/p>\n<p>An increase in charges over gun crime in New Zealand \u2013 despite sweeping reforms introduced after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/christchurch-shooting\">Christchurch mosque attacks in 2019<\/a> \u2013 has shown the need for further restrictions, the government and campaigners agree.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths of 51 people at al-Noor mosque and Linwood Islamic centre two years ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/mar\/21\/explainer-how-are-new-zealands-gun-laws-changing\">led to a sweeping ban<\/a> on a range of semi-automatic rifles and large ammunition magazines and a gun buy-back scheme, which removed about 60,000 guns from circulation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/15\/new-zealand-ardern-flags-further-gun-control-reforms-after-firearms-charges-peak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says 2020 police statistics have only reinforced government\u2019s commitment to crackdown An increase in charges over gun crime in New Zealand \u2013 despite sweeping reforms introduced after the Christchurch mosque attacks in 2019 \u2013 has shown th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1833,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,213,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christchurch-shooting","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29775,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29774\/revisions\/29775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}