Gun Advocate Turned Minister Leads Firearm Law Review, Police Union Raises Concerns

Published on August 12, 2024

The New Zealand Police Association—a union that represents 98 percent of all sworn police officers—has taken the unprecedented step of writing to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon questioning the fitness of Associate Minister of Justice, Nicole McKee, to hold the position. In June, the minister—an ACT Party MP—announced “a comprehensive programme to reform New Zealand’s outdated and complicated firearms laws.” Existing legislation had been “amended several times in a piecemeal, and sometimes rushed way. This has resulted in outdated and complicated requirements that unfairly target licenced firearms owners, often with no clear benefit to public safety,” McKee said....

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