NZ GUN REGISTER Excuses:

Let's leave the 'Public Relations' Distortion Zone & take a REALITY CHECK 

Police spokesperson and Association President Cahill has repeatedly stated that the new "Firearms Register" will, at some time in the future, greatly assist police by them knowing whether there are firearms at a location they need to approach.

This new law now requires fit and proper known law-abiding & registered licenced Firearms owners to provide Serial numbers and technical information of their legally owned equipment to Te Tari Pureke.

1/- Any police officer visiting the home of a Licensed Firearm owner already fully expects that fit and proper person to have legal ownership of a firearm without need of any "serial number register".

2/- Any police officer visiting suspected offenders and convicted criminals - such as a "GANG HOUSE"  - following procedure and checking with the new Te Tari Pureke registration records - will of course be assured that there are NO REGISTERED LEGALLY OWNED FIREARMS at that location and they do not need to be on alert. 

- Is this useful in any way to a frontline serving police officer?

3/- Legally licenced firearms owners have repeatedly explained that a list of firearms and their locations, built by any office is most valuable to anyone seeking to TAKE THAT GUN away from it's lawful owner for their own purpose ..

It has been made evident repeatedly that NZ Police are unable to maintain this information securely because of multiple people accessing it at any time.

4/- In under ONE MONTH of becoming active - Te Tari Pureke has ALREADY accidently released confidential security information of 147 legal gun owners.

5/- These dangerous repressive laws will result in many guns being hidden 'off register' for safety and increasingly becoming available for black market sale by those not trusting these new laws.

These costly laws MUST immediately be reviewed by a panel including knowlegable LICENCED FIREARMS OWNERS and struck from the law books.

Marty K.