Air rifles

Good day
I'm new to the forum and soon new to New Zealand, joining up with my Fiancee already working there.
Would like to ask a question most like answered before, but I'm getting mixed answers from different sources.
I know from reading on the police site, that license is required for a PCP air rifle, but not for as breakneck nor a CO2. Does that mean a foreigner like myself can own a air rifle to join clubs or not.

An individual at one of the police stations mentioned that that was incorrect and that all forms of air rifles needs a licence.

I'm an active competition shooter in the larger calibers, as well as an advanced firearm instructor in South Africa. Would like to continue shooting even if it means under the air rifle categories.

Thanks for your time
    

Good morning from NZ. Where in NZ are you going to live? There's a couple of South Africans here in Wellington that are in the same boat, in that they are waiting to get their licenses, so are shooting spring guns.

We don't have quite the selection in NZ as in other countries, but there are two main shops in the Auckland region that seem to keep NZ happy.
Youngs Airguns, and Aiguns NZ.

So are you waiting for a license to have an air rifle or larger caliber firearm?
Will be based in Gisborne, but will go where ever available jobs take me

Thanks for the feedback

I have my license, but these others are looking to buy pcps.
You can get any caliber, and any power spring or co2 powered gun without a license.
You can also have a pcp pistol without one.

thats a tricky one to answer,legally you should have no probs with the co2 rifle,but in practice the way our customs and police work these days with anything to do with all types of guns its likely to be a bit of a lottery whether you get it thru customs,contact nz customs as you will proberly need an import permit of some kind before you arrive here that specifys that exact rifle etc,i wouldnt just turn up here without a prearranged import permit or you may lose your rifle,the system is a real mess here now due to government recently passing new gun laws that are not exactly clear on many issuses so customs tend to interperate the law to suit themselves mate,they have bassicaly banned private importation of most airguns for purely political reasons tho law dosnt actually ban private imports customs and police are actually doing so in effect,like i said bit of a lottery mate only your chances of wining dont look good as things are now,its very different today to what had been for most my life all because of a mass murder commited by an Aussie in christchuch just recently,they have come down really hard on all types of guns in an emoitional over reaction to this incident,they set out to ban all militry type semi auto rifles and decided to ban just bout everything else at same time for nothing but the political agenda of a very left wing government we have today