new gun laws

been surfing all the nz shooting forums on line and face book for last few weeks just to see what the reaction is to these laws,have to admit am bit surprised at the surprisinly little discussion on some forums bout this issuse,which amounts to the confiscation of just bout all rifles that are not bolt action in centerfires,even the pig hunters favourite lever actions using 44/357.etc pistol cartridges will be gone as will any rifle it seems bigger than 30/06,even your dads old pump action tube maged 22lr rifle will be gone if what the government is proposing comes about,yet virtual silence from gun owners and hunters!!personly it wont afect me with the firearms i own these days,but that is not the point,as it concerns me for many other reasons as well as my being able to own other types of guns if so choose to in future.am absolutly disgusted in the NATs for rolling over to get a nice PC tummy rub for purely PC reasons not wanting i am sure to look as if they didnt care to voters or in overseas news etc in the wake of what happened in christchurch wich we think is horriffic i am sure,the labour mob used the emotions of the time to implment a long held labour policy on firearms with the full conivence of nz police some of whom allso have long wanted the same result,antone who believes this isnt the case needs get their head outa their arses and wipe the sh*t from their eyes,nz police allready had practice run at making this work by banning bassiaclly all private imports or most airguns,and making it bloody hard for dealers to do same,been more reaction from farmers than shooters over these issuses,facts are that shooters/gun owners and hunters in this country cant and never have been able to get their collective sh*t together and dont really care bout others as long as it didnt affect them personally,well now it does matter to all those who once didnt care coz you all guna lose your prized guns too mates,now you will care eh!!dont think for one minute they wont be coming after airguns either,coz allready started doing that some time ago eh,cheers mike

i i keep up with wots going on,but dont like our chances too much in getting any sane concessions from this mob as they got nz police,the media on their side spreading lies and half truths,and lot the public are now parnoid bout guns and dont understand or want understand wots really behind this,nz gun owners allways had a history of being an appathic disorganised bunch as well,with many clubs and shooting groups really only interested in keeping their own little bit the sport protected so havnt really cared wot happens to other sectors of the sport,and unless this atitude changes the new laws will become a done deal for sure,wether the government can actually pull it off as they believe they can,is another matter,personally i think they wont and many will simplily not comply,time will tell i guess,facts are if gun owners by and large dont comply,there is very little they can actually do bout that in practical terms,fact is government and nz police are relying on threats to make gun owners comply,rather than working with them and doing in such a way they will comply,the whole process been emotionally based and they have played on that to their advantage fully,they lied right from start bout wot they intended and went ahead and have banned most repeating sporting rifles as well,banning lever action carbines and any gun using pistol ammo is quite plainly bloody ridiculous,as is banning all 22 rimfire rifles with evean tube mags that hold more than 10 rounds when they know very well most hold 15 rounds,bassically they have banned based on mag capacity alone a types of rifles that have been used in this counrty for over 100 years,effectivly removing a large segment of popular sporting rifles under the same pretext as a cat MSA rifles,simplily coz they can,as to why begs an honest answer,which we are never going to get from this mob and nz police,thats for sure!!

Do you have link to this new law about banning all firearms? I cant seem to find anything about it. just the semi auto law that has already passed

There is a link to the firearms 2nd ammendment detailing what is prohibited and what can be converted to comply on Colfos facebook page.Well worth a read

sad to see we only have 5 active members now,dont really understand why the only functioning airgun forum in nz is this way,when airgun forums in other countrys running well ,firearms forums all doing well in nz,so why isnt the only functioning airgun forum???i would put up more interesting posts if had means to put up picks,