Tighter regulation was imposed immediately after the Aramoana massacre in 1990 , the Scottish Dunblane and Australian Port Arthur massacres in 1996 . After the Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019 , legislation to restrict semi-automatic firearms and magazines with a capacity of more than 10 rounds , and provide an amnesty and buyback of such weapons was introduced and passed by the New Zealand parliament by 119 votes to one
Dunblane
Dunblane massacre
Gun laws in New Zealand