PS: There’s a few choice words that I would like to call some of them around here… Am exercising considerable restraint in not doing so.

Deer hunters. They are called deer hunters in NZ.
Sounds like you are all over it

Ahh – We can call them what we like, mate. And no, I’m not going to give you specific directions to the farm/ station I’m on, which you seem to be angling for. Enough!

Deer hunters. They are called deer hunters in NZ.
Sounds like you are all over it.

“There is also a shitload of epic killing machine type weapons no longer in circulation.”

I think this, inadvertently, illustrates the major issue with the rushed and confused nature of the legislation changes, that also allowed the disturbing new Police powers to be pushed through with little serious debate on their coat-tails.

Minister Nash has said the firearms prohibited were only those intended to kill people, not those for hunting deer/pigs/rabbits. This is either an enormous lie or enormous incompetence because its just not true. Two thirds of the firearms handed in were not semi-auto centrefire.

I know some of this stuff from the inside, mate. And it’s a multi-pronged question. Here, there’s farmers, stag hunters, goat shooters, as well as gangs, and several Marae… AND many on Meths! AND a few ex-army blokes w/ their stashes. Take yr pick. We’ve been thru it!

Pretty much everyone around where I live owns one. Incl family and friends.

I do – too often. Fact of life where I live.

Lol

The guy doesn’t have a gun license.

5 years jail is only for license holders.
Gangs and garden variety ferals don’t even get a raid.
They get a cup of tea and no jail.

Look where your semi autos are turning up.
What a massive success.

Not 5 years in Prison and no howls of protest.

The maximum penalty for an offence is invariably never reflected by the actual sentence in court.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/118814597/man-caught-with-banned-firearm-procrastinated-about-handing-it-in