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The New Zealand farmer who gave up his gun

Farmer John Hart owned a semi-automatic rifle to kill goats for pest control.

After the mass shooting in Christchurch, he decided that he could no longer justify having the potentially deadly weapon in his house.

He told us about the huge reaction on social media after he handed it into the police to be destroyed.

(Photo: Farmer John Hart. Credit: John Hart)

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