Murray Willis

Thanks John, for your question about gun laws in New Zealand and our cobbers

across the pond in Australia,

The short answer is no, defiantly not!

Our Gun laws are reasonably good in many respects. Simply as follows.

All owners of firearms,must be registered. this includes owners of any type

of cartridge weapons but excludes flint, match lock percussion etc. but does

not include modern black powder replicas.


All rifles and shotguns are not required to be registered but the owners

must be registered.

All hand guns must be registered as either for pistol club shooting or for

collection and the owners must be registered as a pistol shooter and or a

collector.This law has been in existance for many years.

A collector and a dealer can trade in anything, from rifles, shotguns

pistols revolvers sub machine guns and machine guns and heavy machine guns

such as a 50cal browning.

I collect Lugers and thompson guns for example.I am also a dealer.

It takes about five minutes to obtain a permit to procure (purchase) a sub

machine gun ( if you have the correct license, a collectors or dealers

license) and about a week to obtain a permit to import for a rifle, shot gun

or pistol.

(Sub machine guns are now on longer able to be imported with out a special

license)

Assault Rifles (AK47 etc ) require a E licence which is basically a

registration of both the gun and the owner and they are not allowed to be

full auto like my thompsons are!!

Trust you find this to be of interest,

Regards

Murray Willis

Great Barrier Island

New Zealand.