The Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines, and Parts) Amendment Bill passed it’s first reading in Parliament today by 119-1. David Seymour was the only vote against the bill, but he embarrassed himself by not being urgent enough getting to the House to force the bill into urgency – he put to much urgency into talking to […]
via Two days for public submissions on the Arms Amendment Bill — Your NZ
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On the face of it, it’s a knee-jerk ‘we need to be seen to be doing something even if it’s futile’ reaction; but the 2 days allowed for submissions before the bill is rammed through is clearly intended to create the impression of a crisis so they can do more clamping down on civil liberties like this. Today two of our readers in Kapiti were visited by cops in bullet proof vests toting guns and wanting names of ‘right wing extremists’ they knew. Very likely the police have orders from Jacinda via her Police Minister to come up with ‘evidence’ to justify heavy censorship, removal of free speech, detaining opponents of the government in jail without trail… in other words all the standard trappings of extreme socialist regimes.
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Thanks for that feedback WW. Was about to post Mike Adams’ info about that. He’d mentioned what you say re visits from the law. Yours is the first I heard of this happening. Very real isn’t it? The beginnings of visible evidence..as you say, of loss of civil liberties. It’s a bit disturbing.
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PS … were they checking for weapons WW? Or just names of people?
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Names of people.. The situation for police is that they don’t know who has semi-automatic rifles — the Chch shooter bought his with an ‘A category’ licence of which there are 250,000 in NZ — let alone how many are out there.
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Thanks. Interesting how they know who may have ‘right wing extremist’ friends or contacts isn’t it?
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