New Zealand ratified these most worthy Treaties in 10 April 1981, and we sporting shooters have been told that the increasing limitations on the lawful use of our rifles, shotguns, and pistols imposed by Police and Customs regulation are as the direct result of our good-thinking Government seeking to apply the content of these ratified UNODA Treaties to reduce and eliminate (where possible) the shocking attacks on civilian populations composed largely of defenceless invalids, women and children.
This does somewhat ignore the fact that possession, use, and movement of government owned weapons and explosives is completely outside of any controls that might be attempted by either Police or Customs Border Protection activity.
- What if any - illegally held automatic weapons carried by the un-permitted personal security guards of visiting presidents/politicians/Celebrities - have been impounded by our border guards?
Please forgive my suspicious nature - but I kinda doubted that the UN had gone to such lengths to stop me importing - for example - a new firing-pin spring, (or a five round magazine) for my rim fire target pistol.
On a scan of these various Protocols - it seems that the most pertinent to us shooters might be: CCCW - Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
UNITED NATIONS LIMITS THE USE OF THE MOON AS A WEAPONS BASE.
The other protocols specify the use of Celestial Bodies (The Moon etc.), outer space, the sea bed, Nuclear, Chemical, Biological, Cluster Bombs and other bulk means of wreaking mass destruction used by government forces - all outside of the general club target shooting range or local hunting tracts.
Now, CCCW does include specifically: Mines, Booby Traps & Other Devices, Incendiary Weapons, Blinding Laser Weapons, and the explosive remnants of war. The text clearly states that such items are "not to be used against concentrations of civilians".
Basically - these United Nations PROTOCOLS are aimed at restricting the freedom of governments or military forces to using such indiscriminately lethal horrors only against legitimate military targets and preventing them using such killing machines against defenceless civilians (collateral damage?) on fear of subsequent court action and punishment.
I haven't managed to find any reference to my sporting equipment used for paper-punching and hunting wild game or pests in the Protocol texts.
- Can it be that our democratically elected government has mistakenly deflected and re-directed limiting protocols - aimed at controlling use of Weapons of Mass Destruction by them - towards the lawful users of civilian sporting arms ? - Surely not.
Marty K
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