# New Zealand enacts the Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines, and Parts) Amendment Act 2019

Date: 2019

## The fact

On 10 April 2019 the Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines, and Parts) Amendment Act received royal assent, banning most semi-automatic rifles and creating a buy-back.

## Context

[Andrew Little](/people/andrew-little) held the justice/police neighbourhood. A large parliamentary majority voted. Licensed owners met a confiscation-and-compensation scheme. Later 2020s gang-firearm debates are other Facts.

Keep 15 March response, 10 April Act, and 15 May Call separate.

A New Zealand prime minister chairs Cabinet and can recommend orders and bills. The House enacts. Police, DHBs, MIQ contractors, and platform companies implement. That office is not authorship of WHO guidance, Australian law, or a later successor’s repeal.

## Evidence and sources

New Zealand Parliamentary Counsel Office carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

Weapon-availability path from a completed semi-automatic ban.

## What is established and what is not

Established: The Arms Amendment Act 2019 was enacted on 10 April 2019.

Not established: A unique 2019 homicide-rate coefficient from assent day.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The House passed it with a large majority. Police ran the buy-back.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies New Zealand enacts the Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines, and Parts) Amendment Act 2019, not a later speech about New Zealand enacts the Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines, and Parts) Amendment Act 2019.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. New Zealand enacts the Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines, and Parts) Amendment Act 2019 on 2019-04-10 is not a licence to treat every later New Zealand Parliamentary Counsel Office communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average New Zealand enacts the Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines, and Parts) Amendment Act 2019 into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She put the bill at the front of Cabinet. The House passed it with a large majority. Police ran the buy-back. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Jacinda Ardern: https://factrail.ai/people/jacinda-ardern

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-shooting-guns-idUSKCN1RM0Y20190410
- https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2019/0012/latest/LMS181162.html

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nz-arms-amendment-act-2019