New Zealand massacre puts focus on semi-automatic weapons

49 people were killed and dozens wounded when a gunman opened fire on worshippers in 2 mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Armed police officers stand guard in a perimeter outside al-Noor mosque after Friday’s gunmen attacks in Christchurch.

A video live-streamed by the assailant on Facebook showed him rapidly firing what appeared to be hundreds of bullets at his defenceless victims using various weapons. Such weapons were used in the mass shooting at a movie theatre in Colorado which left 12 people dead in 2012 and the massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, that same year which left 26 people dead including 20 children.

According to the Violence Policy Centre, semi-automatic weapons differ from military versions in that the trigger of a semi-automatic must be pulled individually for each round fired. Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas shooter, had equipped a number of his semi-automatic rifles with bump stocks.

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