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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.
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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