Ardern tells Colbert how New Zealand delivered gun control after mass shooting

• "We saw something that wasn’t right and we acted on it, and I can only speak to that experience," said Ardern, who's on a trade visit to the U.S. "When we saw something like that happen, everyone said, 'Never again.' And so then it was incumbent on us as politicians to respond to that.
• "Now, we have legitimate needs for guns in our country for things like peace control and to protect our biodiversity, but you don’t need a military-style semiautomatic weapon to do that. And so we got rid of that," she added.

Flashback: Days after the March 2019 mass shooting in Christchurch, Ardern announced a nationwide ban on all military-style semiautomatic weapons that New Zealand's Parliament passed the following month, and a firearms buyback scheme saw thousands of guns handed over to police.