New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern has said she will announce detailed gun law reforms within days, after an attack on two mosques left 50 people dead, report agencies.
Ms Ardern said her cabinet had backed gun law changes "in principle".
Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a self-described white supremacist, has been charged with murder.
"Within 10 days of this horrific act of terrorism we will have announced reforms which will, I believe, make our community safer," Ardern told a news conference after her cabinet reached in principle decisions on gun reform laws in the wake of New Zealand's worst ever mass shooting.
In addition to the 50 killed, dozens were wounded at two mosques in the South Island city during Friday prayers.
Police say the killer used military-style assault weapons modified to make them more deadly for the attack - all of which is legal under current laws.
No specific details were given by the prime minister at her press conference on Monday, but she said they would made clear soon.
The owner of gun shop Gun City, David Tipple, said the suspected gunman had legally bought four weapons and ammunition online from it between December 2017 and March 2018, but it did not sell him the high-powered weapon used in the massacre.
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