'Owning a firearm is a privilege not a right,' Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in September as the country's parliament considered new gun control laws.
This would suggest a compliance rate, so far, as low as 18 percent, 16 weeks into the buyback program. With seven weeks left to go until the amnesty period ends, if the current rate of return holds, the New Zealand government is on track to collect around 50,000 prohibited weapons pursuant to the buyback. That would impute a final compliance rate of around 29 percent, at the lower end, which would represent a modest but tangible success for policymakers.
The government has established a fund worth more than NZD $20 million to repurchase newly-banned weapons at 25 percent to 95 percent of the price of a new weapon, depending on each firearm's condition. "Since the first firearms collection event on Saturday 13 July in Christchurch I have been full of praise for those law-abiding firearms owners who are doing the right thing and for Police who have worked hard to make the process easy to follow," Nash said in a press release."Since that first collection more than 19,000 people have walked out the door with more than $62 million in payments.
However, New Zealand's collection thus far still represents meaningful gains, especially when compared to how the U.S. has fared when trying to regulate assault weapons.
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