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    New Zealand's Plan To Buy Back Illegal Firearms Angers Gun Advocates

    The country's equivalent of the NRA says the government isn't paying enough for weapons that became illegal under a new law passed in April.
    by Scott Neuman Jun 20, 2019 2 minutes
    New Zealand Minister of Police Stuart Nash announces government decisions around the firearms buy-back and amnesty at Parliament on Thursday in Wellington.

    Gun advocates in New Zealand are angry over a government plan aimed at buying back now-illegal firearms and magazines that were outlawed after a mass shooting in March that killed dozens of worshipers at two mosques in Christchurch.

    Details of the plan were released

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