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Gun Threat Prompts NZ Police to Warn Farmers Against Armed Vigilantism
26 January 2010
New Zealand Press Association
A Whangarei firearms incident has prompted a warning from police that people should not take the law into their own hands.
A 60-year-old Whangarei man has been charged over allegedly pointing a firearm at a group of youths littering his lawn.
Sergeant Graeme Povey told the Northern Advocate five youths were walking along Riverside Drive last week when one of them threw a drink can on to the lawn of a house.
The man confronted the group and some responded by throwing... (GunPolicy.org)