New Zealand: Preventing Harm from Guns, Killer Robots

Expand The New Zealand Parliament buildings in Wellington. © 2015 Michal Klajban New Zealand has banned semi-automatic firearms, magazines, and parts that can be used to assemble prohibited firearms after 50 people were killed and dozens wounded in a mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch on March 15. The legislation has been praised around the world for coming so swiftly after these senseless and hateful attacks. Yet the reality is that it came far too late for many. This is because successive governments failed to carry out legislative changes recommended in 1997 by an official review…

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