INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
on Monday the man charged with murder in Christchurch's mass shooting had bought firearms and ammunition online from the store, but it did
not sell him the high-powered weapon used in the mosque shootings.Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was charged
Tarrant was remanded without a plea and is due back in court on April 5 where police said he was likely to face more charges.Gun City owner
David Tipple said the alleged gunman bought four weapons and ammunition between December 2017 and March 2018."The MSSA, military-style
automatic, reportedly used by the alleged gunman was not purchased from Gun City
Gun City did not sell him an MSSA, only A-category firearms," Tipple told a new conference in Christchurch.Fifty people were killed and
dozens wounded at two mosques in Christchurch on Friday.Under New Zealand gun laws A-category weapons can be semi-automatic but limited to
Video of the gunman in the mosque showed a semi-automatic with a large magazine round.Tipple said the online purchase followed a
police-verified online mail-order process and the firearms were bought in three or four purchases."We detected nothing extraordinary about
He was a brand new purchaser, with a brand new licence," he said.A standard A-category firearm licence is issued after a police and
No licence is required to buy a large round magazine, which can be illegally modified for use in such a weapon.Only firearm owners are
licensed, not weapons, so there is no monitoring of how many weapons a person may possess.The minimum age for a gun license is 16, and 18 to
own a semi-automatic weapon.Tightening New Zealand's gun laws is at the top of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's agenda as she meets with her
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