Semi-automatics on the table in gun laws shake-up

Caption:ACT MP Nicole McKee watching a public submitter in committeePhoto credit:©VNP / Phil SmithAssociate Justice Minister Nicole McKeeRNZ / Dom ThomasFile photo. Acting Superintendant Michael McIlraith demonstrates in April 2020 how semi-automatic weapons can be illegally modified. Lawmakers near-unanimously supported an amendment to ban semi-automatics after the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings.RNZ /Ana Tovey

A selection of firearms which are now prohibited, on display to media at a police press conference.

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Firearms that will remain legal, depending on number of rounds and magazine type, on display at the police press conference.

Sonya Rockhouse (left) and Anna Osborne outside Parliament after their meeting with Workplace Safety Minster Brooke van Velden.

Jeremy Clarkson is at the Formula 1 Qatar Airways Grand Prix of Great Britain at the Silverstone Circuit in Towcester, England, on July 6, 2024. (Photo by Jon Hobley | MI News/NurPhoto) (Photo by MI News / NurPhoto via AFP)

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The photo of Dame Jools Topp is used with permission from the 2013 Pink Ribbon Calendar Girls’ project. Body artist was Sofia Bue.

Meth pipes are often sold with an attachment that allows them to be used as, or passed off as, cannabis pipes.