More shocking, at least for me, was the comments posted on 4chan
I had to go to 4chan to find the video, and that means I had to dig into the posts, suffice to say armchair white supremacists are very happy about it
and the guy had 5 guns and lots of ammo, all guns military grade rapid fire (assault rifles, shotguns), I don't know how much different this would had been if one of the victims had a handgun. If you see the video you will notice he killed 90% of the victims in the first minute or so.
Restricting assault rifles can work in country as geographically isolated as New Zealand (no US contraband), a pistol carrying terrorist can be taken down easier, I mean the Ottawa terrorist, Zehaf-Bibeau, had a Winchester lever-action rifle, this is 7 to 9 rounds max, and reloading is very slow, this means this totally inadequate for modern warfare. A terrorist would only pick something like this if there are no better options