Aramoana massacre

Aramoana massacre
Anti-Terrorist Squad officers crouch on Muri Street (right), before storming Gray's beach house (left)
Location	Aramoana, Otago Harbour, New Zealand
Date	13–14 November 1990 7:30 – 5:50 p.m.
Attack type	Mass shooting, siege, shootout, arson
Weapons	.223-calibre Norinco Type 84s sporting rifle 7.62x39mm Norinco SKS semi-automatic rifle .22-calibre Squires and Bingham Model 16 semi-automatic sporting rifle .22-calibre Winchester Model 750 rifle with suppressor .22-calibre Vickers-Martini MK II single-shot rifle .22-calibre Remington Nylon 66 semi-automatic rifle[1] Air rifle Arson fire
Deaths	14 (including the perpetrator)
Injured	3
Perpetrator	David Malcolm Gray

The Aramoana massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 13 November 1990 in the small seaside township of Aramoana, northeast of Dunedin, New Zealand.^[2] Resident David Gray^[3] killed 13 people, including local police Sergeant Stewart Guthrie, one of the first responders to the reports of a shooting, after a verbal dispute between Gray and his next-door neighbour. After a careful house-to-house search the next day, police officers led by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (now known as the Special Tactics Group) located Gray, and shot and injured him as he came out of a house firing from the hip.^[4][5] He died in an ambulance while being transported to hospital.

At the time, the incident was the deadliest mass shooting in New Zealand's history, being surpassed 28 years later by the Christchurch mosque shootings.^[6] After the shootings, sweeping changes were made to New Zealand's firearms legislation in 1992, including 10-year photographic licences and tight restrictions on military style semi-automatic firearms.^[7]