Thanx guys for the responses. Yes we are able to have firearms here in NZ. You must be licensed which involves a vigorous testing and sweep of your character etc. Handguns are not allowed as part of that but can be owned if you are a member of a pistol club in which case the weapon is under lock and key within the club.
The guy who has been charged is indeed an Australian but that is not significant to me...he could have been from anywhere.
Apparently he had an agenda and came her to train himself for an attack back in Aussie but found that Christchurch had alot more 'targets' than he had imagined so this is where he decide it would happen.
For him to film himself doing all this killing and then release the footage on social media shows his mentality.
The thing is, there will be people who support what he has done out there and who knows what will develop from it.
My thoughts are with families affected by all this...i mean, kids without a parent or parents...parents without children or badly injured for life...home life thrown into dissaray...cant work....no income....complete sadness ..
Then there is the people who have had to deal with the aftermath...those who witness the mayhem...blood and guts and bits and pieces...these thoughts and pictures in their mind from hereon in.
All because of this one guy.