Former police minister Judith Collins says New Zealand's pro-gun lobbyists 'spoke the language of the NRA' when she attempted gun law reforms.
The National Rifle Association has been told to"bugger off" from meddling in New Zealand's affairs as the country plans for gun law reforms in the wake of the mosque attacks which left 50 people dead.
"They talked about how we were trying to take away their Second Amendment rights to own guns. We don't have a right to bear arms. To own a gun in New Zealand is absolutely a privilege and not a right. When I met with these lobbyists they spoke the language of the NRA," she told the The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Responding to the comment from Ocasio-Cortez, NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch tweeted:"That’s also what an entirely different country that doesn’t have the right to bear arms as a cornerstone of its constitution, in addition to numerous state laws. It’s also what confiscation and banning most semi-auto looks like, too."
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