From what ive seen its a cultural thing. New Zealand doesnt have the same gun interests that people have here…so its a lot easier to be less militant over something. They are what the nra used to be till it turned into a psycho cult.
No, we have tens of thousands of more legal firearms going into circulation every day while the Homicide rate continues to fall.
Ove 80% of the murders in this country are related directly to gangs and drugs in a handful of major cities and they are committed overwhelmingly by people who can’t even possess, much less purchase a firearm legally.
Want to make a dent in the problem start there with the people are most likely to commit, and have committed such crimes and leave the rest of us the hell alone.
Horse hockey, the NRA has never supported bans on Semi Autos and hasn’t supported any bans period since the 70’s/early 80’s when they promoted the ban on Saturday Night Specials.
That would be China today. The entire Soviet Block, N. Vietnam, N. Korea, Communist Laos and Cambodia along with VZ and Cuba along with a smattering of other Communist/Socialist dictatorships over the last half century combined for another billion plus.
The most advanced military weapon of the revolutionary era was the rifled, Kentucky Long Rifle which enabled our militiamen to accurately negate the enemy at 3 times the range the enemy could engage them.
It was so effective Washington had similar rifles issued to the troops.