David Tipple, the owner of Christchurch's Gun City, yesterday confirmed that Tarrant had bought weapons and ammunition from the gun store's online shop.
Facebook has revealed that it removed almost 1.5 million videos of the Christchurch mosque shootings in which 50 people were killed and another 50 people injured, after a gunman opened fire on worshippers on Friday, March 15 at two mosques in New Zealand.
The death toll from the massacre stands at 50, with another 50 people injured, after a gunman burst into a mosque and opened fire on worshippers with a semi-automatic rifle and high-capacity magazines, and then attacked a second mosque.
Brenton Tarrant was charged with one count of murder and appeared at Christchurch District Court on Saturday after the rampage during Friday prayers which left 50 people dead.
He was remanded in custody and will reappear in court April 5.
Tipple said he was disgusted by the killings but felt no responsibility for the tragedy and refused to say whether he believed gun ownership laws should change in New Zealand, insisting that a debate over guns should be held at another time.
"If anyone has a weapon that either they should not be in possession of, or they have concern over the events of Friday, they are welcome at any time to surrender that weapon to police", she said.
A-category firearms include some semi-automatic weapons, Reuters reported, but they must be restricted to seven shots.
The carnage unleashed in Christchurch by a white supremacist has highlighted what analysts say is the global problem of a far-right threat that frequently flies beneath the intelligence radar.
In addition to examining whether government agencies could have done more to prevent the shooting, the inquiry would also look at the suspect's travel to and from New Zealand, his activities in the country, his use of social media and his contacts.
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A Radio New Zealand report, based on police data secured through an Official Information Act request, said more than 99 percent of people who applied for a firearms license in 2017 were successful.
"We have made a decision as a cabinet, we are unified", said Ardern.
"It's only since he travelled overseas I think that that boy has changed completely to the boy we knew", she said.
Iranian-American journalist and commentator Negar Mortazavi praised Ardern for wearing a headscarf, which she said was "a sign of respect" to the grieving Muslim community.
"We detected nothing extraordinary about the licence holder".
While she said details were being worked through, cabinet has been looking at a ban on semi-automatic assault rifles, tighter licensing rules and the issue of modified weapons.
"We don't need these in our country". "If we allow him to make changes in our ideology, in our behavior, he's won".
Australian police have raided two homes in New South Wales state as part of the investigation into the New Zealand mosque shootings. Until Friday, the country's worst mass shooting was in 1990, when a gunman killed 13 people in the small town of Aramoana.
A teenager, whose name can not be published, appeared in court on Monday charged with distributing that footage.
Two websites have so far raised almost 8 million New Zealand dollars ($5.5 million).
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