Christchurch gun store sold 4 weapons to suspect

Gun City, a gun store in Christchurch has admitted of selling guns online to mosque shooting suspect. Gun City owner David Tipple said the store sold four guns and ammunition to suspect Brenton Harrison Tarrant through a "police-verified online mail order process."

Christchurch: A Christchurch gun shop on Monday acknowledged selling guns online to the 28-year-old white supremacist accused of killing 50 people in mosque shootings.

At a news conference, "Gun City" owner David Tipple said the store sold four guns and ammunition to suspect Brenton Harrison Tarrant through a "police-verified online mail order process."

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said the attacker used five guns, two of them semi-automatic, which were purchased with an ordinary gun license and modified.

Tipple said none of the weapons sold by his store to the alleged gunman were military style semi-automatic weapons.

It was not clear if any of the firearms Tarrant purchased from Gun City were used in Friday's shootings.

"We detected nothing extraordinary about this license holder," Tipple said, referring to the shooter.

Gun City has been criticised for leaving out a roadside advertising billboard that shows a parent helping children with rifle target practice in the wake of the shootings.

Tipple said his company had operated legally for 40 years and that New Zealand was a country of laws and "not a country of emotional responses."