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In an election year, gun reform has become political in New Zealand and Jacinda Ardern is losing her support

  • Written by Samara McPhedran, Director, Homicide Research Unit/Deputy Director, Violence Research and Prevention Program, Griffith University
In an election year, gun reform has become political in New Zealand and Jacinda Ardern is losing her supportDavid Alexander/AAP

Immediately after the Christchurch massacre in 2019, the New Zealand government pledged dramatic gun law changes.

A year later, amid an ongoing elevated terror level, the government has quietly dropped its promises the laws will prevent future mass shootings. It has shifted instead to platitudes about never wanting to see...

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