Police do not know how many illegal firearms are circulating in New Zealand. The issue of gun control has been raised after the shooting of two officers and a police dog in Christchurch last week. In the past month, firearms have been used in a number of raids on Canterbury pubs, a PostShop and dairies. In Canterbury, there are 31,760 firearm licence-holders, with about 225,000 nationally. It is believed there are about 1.2 million firearms in New Zealand. However,... (GunPolicy.org)