New airgun import laws?

as i said in previous post a lot seems to come down to the individual officer you are dealing with,there seems be no consistant policy on import applications from my experience its a bit of a lottery,you never know if you guna win til you try.hopefully when things settle down,things will improve and police import policy on private imports becomes more consistant and set standard rules come in,seems be bit up in the air at present with much being left to individual officers opinions.i dont think they have any particualer set rules yet.dealers having simialler issuses too.

the shooting sports and owning firearms and airguns are under a very real threat y in this country,there is definatly a polititical agenda behind these new gun laws and we have a police force now very willingly behind the government for their own undisclosed reasons,its deluding ourselves if we think it stop with this latest new serres of draconian gun laws,it will only get worse as history proves that once a government starts down this path they will continue to walk that path,they will continue to use the lie these laws are required for public saftey,when there is never any proof it makes the public any safer from idiots and criminals using guns for crime,there is no evidence an armed police force makes the public any safer from idiots and criminals with guns,so be prepared for more evan tougher and meaningless gun laws and airguns you can be sure are next on their list for same treatment,will this make the country or the public any safer,i seriously doubt that that it will,laws only affect the law abiding,idiots and criminals by their very nature dont obey the law,that is why we call them idiots and criminals eh!!!polititions never seem to grasp the fact that they cannot legistate idiots and criminals out of existance,yet continually try to doso,this is the defination of stupid,when you do the same dumb thing over and over again and get the same dumb results that is the definition of stupidity,which therefore defines the the quality of the polititions we have in this country today eh!!

i never would have believed our gun laws would end up being worse than the UK but i was proved so wrong on that one,i am now jealous of how good the poms have got it today and considering how bad it is in the UK ,we have it worse and its only going to get evan worse here,they are making things up as they go along here now,getting an import permit for any airgun depends very much on the attitude of who you are dealing with,not allways what the laws states,getting an import permit now is like buying a lottery ticket,the whole system is a total shambles,but thats bout par for the course with this disfunctional government and nz police these days,neither have a clue what they are doing on this and most other things as well.

Yeah I probably won't go through all the trouble as I was just considering a co2 rifle or pistol for plinking and a bit of fun. There doesn't seem to be anywhere in Canterbury anymore that sells them? I've got a more powerful break barrel rifle that does the job for birds and mice when it's nessicary. Thanks for the insight though 👍

Yeah the issue I'm having is that before the laws changed after the Christchurch shootings, it was clear that if an airgun had the appearance of being a pistol or had any features that would make a firearm a MSSA (such as a pistol grip or magazine appearing to hold more than 10 rounds) it would be illegal to import without a permit. Since MSSA's are no longer a thing, you can now buy an AR style rimfire rifle on an Acat license (which you could not before). What I'm wondering is if this applies to airguns also. I've found no material from either police or customs and judging by the way the laws were hastily changed without much though I wouldn't be surprised if they really don't know?