Andrew Dickens: If cracking down on gangs was easy, it would have been done decades ago Tue, 11 May 2021, 5:42PM Andrew Dickens: If cracking down on gangs was easy, it would have been done decades ago Tue, 11 May 2021, 5:42PM So, the latest step has been taken in the decades long battle against the gangs, organised crime and hardened criminals. The government has introduced a thing called Firearm Prohibition Orders. It bans high-risk convicted Kiwis from owning firearms and enabling the seizure of assets obtained through crime. It’s very similar to the idea floated a few weeks ago by National’s Simeon Brown, but it goes further than Simeon’s proposal in that it includes all criminals and not just gang members. That hasn’t stopped Simon Bridges from saying Labour has just copied them.