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This article is a list of mass shootings in New Zealand. Mass shootings are firearm-related violence with at least four casualties. Excluded are massacres of Māori people during the New Zealand Wars and other colonial conflicts.

New Zealand has often been contrasted to the United States in its gun laws and responsive nature to mass shootings. After the Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019, the government banned semi-automatic rifles like those used in the attack, as well as creating a firearms registry.

Two shootings in 2022 with six people wounded each