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Tighter New Zealand Gun Law Mooted in Wake of Airgun, Toy Gun Deaths
9 October 2008
Otago Daily Times
Police have warned parents not to be fooled into thinking airguns they give their children are toys.
The warning came several weeks after an undercover police officer was shot dead in Auckland with a high-powered air rifle and as the government moved to tighten the law on airguns.
Police national manager of firearms licensing and vetting, Inspector Joe Green, said up to 100,000 airguns were in the country which were replicas of real firearms, including rifles and... (GunPolicy.org)