New Zealand Experience Further Proves Registration Facilitates Confiscations

[Elderberry]

NRA-ILA 7/8/2019

Firearms registration facilitates firearms confiscation. This fact has been demonstrated in recent weeks, as the New Zealand authorities have lamented that the country does not have a firearms registry to assist them in their gun confiscation efforts.

Following a high-profile shooting in Christchurch, the New Zealand government enacted the Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines, and Parts) Amendment Act 2019. The legislation prohibited the sale and civilian possession of all centerfire semi-automatic rifles. Further, the bill banned semi-automatic and pump-action shotguns “that are capable of holding more than 5 cartridges commensurate with that firearm’s chamber size” or capable of accepting a detachable magazine. All detachable centerfire rifle magazines were also prohibited.

Otherwise law-abiding individuals found in unlawful possession of a newly-prohibited firearm face up to five years in prison. Those found in possession of a newly-prohibited magazine face up to two years imprisonment.

In order to enforce the new firearms prohibitions, New Zealand has undertaken an Australian-style confiscatory “buy-back” program that will run from June 20 through December 20. The use of the term “buy-back” is improper, as the government never owned the firearms it seeks to confiscate.

More: https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190708/new-zealand-experience-further-proves-registration-facilitates-confiscations

[thackney]

Noncompliance Kneecaps New Zealand's Gun Control Scheme
https://reason.com/2019/07/08/noncompliance-kneecaps-new-zealands-gun-control-scheme/

As of last week, only around 700 weapons had been turned over.

Once again, responding to a horrendous crime by inflicting knee-jerk, authoritarian restrictions on innocent people proves to be an ineffective means of convincing people to obey. Specifically, New Zealand's government—which also stepped up censorship and domestic surveillance after bloody attacks on two Christchurch mosques earlier this year—is running into stiff resistance to new gun rules from firearms owners who are slow to surrender now-prohibited weapons and will probably never turn them in.

Officials should have seen it coming.

"Police are anticipating a number of people with banned firearms in their possession won't surrender them," Stuff reported at the end of May, based on internal government documents.

As of last week, only around 700 weapons had been turned over. There are an estimated 1.5 million guns—with an unknown number subject to the new prohibition on semiautomatic firearms—in the country overall....

[txradioguy]

The gun grabbers in this country should pay close attention to what's happening in New Zealand when they talk about Americans being required to register their weapons or participate in some "buyback" scheme.

[thackney]

The gun grabbers in this country should pay close attention to what's happening in New Zealand when they talk about Americans being required to register their weapons or participate in some "buyback" scheme.

Even the mild Canadians (sorry) so rejected the gun registration they gave up and repealed it.