On April 5, 2019, three days after New Zealand's Arms Amendment Act 2019 advanced from its first reading in parliament, NRA-ILA noted that: Â[g]iven the abundant research on AustraliaÂs similar gun confiscation efforts, New Zealand officials can expect that their gun control measures will do little more than trample the natural rights of gun ownersâ  This week the first evidence vindicating this position came in when Radio New Zealand (RNZ) published figures it had obtained from the government showing that for last year crime involving firearms was the highest it had been since 2009.