New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced early on Saturday the country’s gun laws will be toughened following the killing of 49 people in Christchurch mosques. The country’s gun legislation has not been a major political issue of late and has remained largely unchanged since 1992 when controls were tightened after the 1990 Aramoana massacre, in which a man killed 13 people with a semi-automatic rifle. Now following the latest attack, the conversation could come front and centre again.
