John Hart couldn’t take his mind off the semi-automatic rifle in his gun cabinet.
The Masterton, New Zealand, farmer had purchased it legally under the country’s regular firearms license, and the weapon had none of the upgrades, such as high-capacity magazines, that would have rendered it a military-style rifle and thus subject to a tougher permitting process.
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