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Police seize gun collector’s firearms in ‘over the top’ raid
A community-minded contractor who dug the mass grave for victims of the mosque shootings for free says police went “way over the top” in raiding his house to seize his 11 firearms.
The colourful figure – who asked not to be named for security reasons but whose record of helping out people in the community and raising money is known to have endeared him to many – said about 30 police raided his west Christchurch block on April 2 about 5pm while he was still at work.
Some were Armed Offenders Squad members and others were in ordinary police uniform. A specialist search squad searched his house, outbuildings and a granny flat housing his 80-year-old mother.
“They even went through her underwear drawer. The worst thing was they pointed a rifle at my 12-year-old daughter who was picking up horse poo. They told her to put the fork down and walk towards them. She is still anxious and shaken. The whole family is.”
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A Minute To Midnite Show HostFirearms registration would be an expensive and worthless exercise
When people suggest that all firearms in New Zealand should be registered, they leave out one important word. “Again”. This country had registration and then discarded it. Because it was 66 per cent inaccurate and completely worthless.
Canada has just dumped its system, due to it being billions of dollars over budget and delivering nothing useful at any price.
I have just put several handguns in the upcoming Antique Arms auction. This necessitated acquiring permits to change the registered ownership. Sure enough, the police records were wrong. Again.
This despite only just having had two audits of my small collection in the previous year. Those records were inaccurate as well. As the police list has been every time I renew my firearms licence.
Criminals don’t register firearms. They also grind off the serial numbers of the guns they steal or smuggle. So, a system costing hundreds of millions of tax dollars is easily undone within seconds with a stolen grinder.
READ MORE https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/111100032/firearms-registration-would-be-an-expensive-and-worthless-exercise?rm=m
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A Minute To Midnite Show HostWhen the NZ Government announced that they were banning semi-automtic weapons, by and large probably the majority of people in New Zealand accepted that. No one wants a repeat of the Christchurch attack. But I don’t recall any mention of the fact that antique lever action Winchester rifles and such, would also be banned because they hold more than 10 cartridges in the fixed magazine they were made with. The new law states ”
“Other magazines, detachable or not, that are capable of holding more than 10 rounds.”
So what are they going to do with the 100-150 year old antique guns like the Winchester 1873, or Winchester 1890 and 1906 .22’s they will confiscate? Are they going to melt down these antique collectible items? Do most NZer’s realise that these guns are now illegal to own? Guns that have been here since the days of the horse and cart!
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A Minute To Midnite Show HostThis photo was taken in the 1980’s on Kapiti Island before it was made into a wildlife sanctuary. Can you spot which one of the guns in the picture would now be an illegal weapon in NZ?
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A Minute To Midnite Show HostIf you get past the sensationalised title of this article, and the first couple of paragraphs, you find that the truth is that out of over 1000 homicides, only 167 of those involved guns. So, would those criminals just have chosen a different weapon if they had no gun? Then when you take the 51 deaths from the Christchurch attack out of it you are left with 116 firearm related deaths spread over 15 years. Take the Christchurch attack out of it, and that’s 7-8 people a year on average. Seven people out of over 4.8 million people are killed by a gun each year ( on average). Or put another way- approximately one person out of every 685,000 people gets killed by a gun each year. That is very, very low by global standards. Now the article also admitted that most of the murderers didn’t even have a firearms license, and that a third of them were gang related. Gangs file serial numbers off the guns they steal. So a register won’t help trace those guns. Also note that they banned 100-150 year old Winchester lever action rifles, and not just semi automatics in April. Guns that have been in NZ since the horse and cart- now illegal because they hold more than 10 rounds. Are they going to melt down those antiques they confiscate? There is an agenda to sensationalise gun crime and make the 250,000 legal guns owners look bad. When you actually look at facts however, gun crime in NZ is very low by global standards.
The Homicide Report gives a detailed account of gun violence in New Zealand
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A Minute To Midnite Show HostThis irritates me. There goes an antique for destruction because someone basically didn’t bother it have it modified to keep it legal. Done properly the modification would not have even been visible. I hope other’s don’t follow this same course of action that this guy has if they have antique guns, because once it’s been handed in, then it goes to the shredder and that’s that. There would be other people who would love to have had that Winchester to modify and keep it legal. And the scheme even allows up to $300 paid out to do the modification. From the article:
Malcolm Whalley was surrendering his antique .22 Winchester, a pump action rifle made in 1911.
“It’s a beautiful little rifle. A shame to see it destroyed but if it gets some of the dangerous stuff out of circulation then that’s the point,” he said.
He knew the rifle could be modified but that would destroy its intrinsic value, he said.
The rifle was in poor condition so it was valued at $500.
“It should really be in a museum,” he said.READ MORE https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/114215888/governments-first-gun-buyback-event-under-way
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