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Gun Buy-Back Scheme

April 28, 2019

By NZB3

Some Anarchist opinions on the apparently imminent Firearm Buy Back Scheme that New Zealand has been promised. The legislation has been passed banning certain firearms, law abiding citizens have now been criminalised…a deadline for handing the guns in is set…where are the details on what The State will be paying people for these guns.

I think it’s going to take a while for Labour 6.0 to hash it out politically.

Stuart Nash (Police Minister) opportunistically threw himself into this arms dealing business, leveraging public sentiments within a couple of days of the Christchurch massacre. He was able to say with impunity that Robertson (Min. Finance) would be giving him a blank cheque to do so; Robertson and the PM must be fuming behind the scenes.

“On Wednesday Police Minister Stuart Nash said even if it costs $1 billion, he’ll do it.” – Newshub

Labour 6.0 seem to be doing a crappy job of using their political power to make any serious money from being in office. Shane Jones is gathering pollen around the regions like an old pro though (Provincial Growth Fund.) So far Nash sold a few fireworks to dairies and Davis has sold a few slushy machines to prisons; It’s so small time! If Nash wants to be Prime Minister like his grandad then he needs to make some proper money by becoming an arms dealer and that’s what this is about¹. If the PM is going to stop him she needs lots of cred and that’s what her world tour of photo ops with other politicians is about. To make some proper money, Labour needs to hurry up and bring the Otago and Taranaki oil drilling deals home.²

Muldoon and Douglas knew how to make proper money; These kids are amateurs. Do they even have a buyer for these guns? Syria would love them but they’re broke.

1 After our Victimhood Culture PM there will need to be an Honour Culture PM. Labour has not produced one of these since Kirk but it will need to; Nash is first in line. To combat this, National will need a brawling muscle man of its own; Last time (not counting the 90s) it was Muldoon.

2 Labour 6.0 have managed to close down the old Taranaki oil enterprise. That’s great. Cuts off revenue to their political foes. But the important thing to do is to start it up again with the revenue coming to themselves- that’s crucial.

image ref. William West/AFP/Getty Images; Vox

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