New Zealand needs to tighten up its gun laws after a man open fire in Upper Hutt yesterday, an expert says.
It comes after armed police shot a gunman dead in the street outside the town's McDonald's restaurant around 12.40pm.
Speaking to Newstalk ZB today, Professor Kevin Clements from the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies said that New Zealand's gun laws needed to be tougher.
"Our laws are certainly loose, they are much, much looser than Australia for example, which does register guns, as well as gun owners."
New Zealand should do what Australia did after the 1996 Port Arthur shooting and have a buy-back campaign, Professor Clements told Newstalk ZB.