{"id":58871,"date":"2019-04-11T11:18:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T11:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=58871"},"modified":"2019-04-11T11:18:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T11:18:39","slug":"new-zealand-parliament-votes-for-change-in-gun-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/new-zealand-parliament-votes-for-change-in-gun-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand parliament votes for change in gun laws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New Zealand&#8217;s  parliament has voted almost unanimously in favour of changing the  country&#8217;s gun laws, less than a month after a mass shooting left 50  people dead.Post the deadly shooting attack on the two Christchurch  mosques that killed 50 people, New Zealand Parliament on Wednesday voted  to change gun laws. The gun reform bill was passed by the parliament  with a majority of 119 to 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is expected to become law within \nthe next few days after receiving royal assent from the governor \ngeneral. It is now due to receive royal assent from the governor general\n before it becomes law.Holding back tears, PM Jacinda Ardern told \nparliament on Wednesday that MPs were there &#8220;because of the victims and \nfamilies&#8221;. She said that when she had visited the injured in hospital \nnone of them had just one gunshot wound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new rules make \nchanges to 1983 gun laws which have been the subject of several reform \nattempts. They prohibit military-style semi- automatic weapons and parts\n that can be used to assemble prohibited firearms.\n\n<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#8217;s parliament has voted almost unanimously in favour of changing the country&#8217;s gun laws, less than a month after a mass shooting left 50 people dead.Post the deadly shooting attack on the two Christchurch mosques that killed 50 people, New Zealand Parliament on Wednesday voted to change gun laws. The gun reform bill was [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58873,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58871\/revisions\/58873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}