Editor of New Zealand fishing magazine DEFENDS article calling Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern 'dumb as a plank'

Days after the Christchurch shooting which left 50 Muslim worshippers dead, Ms Ardern announced a blanket ban on semi-automatic assault rifles and a gun amnesty program involving a buyback scheme. 

An April issue of Fishing and Outdoors later published a scathing article on gun reform criticising the PM's gun control efforts while labelling her police minister a 'lapdog'.

The story, titled, 'Cops treat NZ gun owners as criminals: Firearm laws ignorantly fiddled with', claimed that the government had called for legislation that already exists.

'Our Dumb-as-a-Plank New Zealand Prime Minister and lapdog New Zealand Police Minister have announced a ban on assault rifles that are and have been banned for the last 'thirty-five years,'' reporter John McNab wrote, according to the NZ Herald.

McNab was referring to the law which makes 'full auto' guns illegal even as defence force weapons.

The writer went on to say the prime minister's comments were 'disingenuous and misleading the general public'.

'This is what happens when dumb people are put in charge of stuff they don't understand, and who are too dumb to either admit it, or to listen to facts from people who do understand the stuff in question.

'Then we have all the flower powder puffs coming out of the woodwork who know little if anything about the issues here,' he wrote. 

When contacted by the publication, editor Graham Carter defended the story and accused Ms Ardern and her associates of 'electioneering.'

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