New Zealand would announce new gun laws after a gunman killed 50 people in mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch city.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday the new gun laws will be introduced within days.
Dozens were wounded in the incident.
Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was charged with murder on Saturday.
The alleged gunman had bought four weapons and ammunition online.
The Christchurch shootings have raised concerns.
New Zealand’s top online marketplace Trade Me Group said it was halting the sale of semi-automatic weapons in the wake of Friday’s attack.
Ardern did not detail the new gun laws, but has said she supports a ban on automatic weapons following the shootings.
New Zealand, a country of only 5 million people, has an estimated 1.5 million firearms.
Australia introduced some of the world’s toughest gun laws after its worst mass killing in 1996.
A lone gunman killed 35 people using a semi-automatic AR-15, the same weapon used in the Christchurch massacre, in Port Arthur massacre in 1996.
Australia banned semi-automatic weapons and made it much tougher to own firearms.
Tens of thousands of guns were handed in to the government authorities.
Violent crime is rare in New Zealand and police do not usually carry guns.
New Zealand’s worst mass shooting was in 1990 when a man killed 13 men, women and children in a 24-hour rampage in the tiny seaside village of Aramoana.
He was killed by police.
The two mosques where the shootings occurred have been closed since the massacre, but are expected to reopen by Friday prayers.
