Thread: Access to AR s are about to change

Does everyone see a time when buying an AR in NZ regardless to configuration (A or E) will be a no go ?
Will we see the outlets that currently sell them being denied permits to import ?
I suppose if yes is the predominant answer than folks need to own a few new ones as spares that don't get used until needed ?

Originally Posted by Happy

Does everyone see a time when buying an AR in NZ regardless to configuration (A or E) will be a no go ?
Will we see the outlets that currently sell them being denied permits to import ?
I suppose if yes is the predominant answer than folks need to own a few new ones as spares that don't get used until needed ?

Surely they can't just out right ban something because they feel like it.
There is plenty of evidence that synthetic cannabis is bad for you and does society no favours what so ever, yet they are struggling to ban it.
Yet how come they can so easily ban ARs and other scary rifles.

If they are trying to classify them as E cat just so they can make sure responsible gun owners are the ones who own them, I don't really object to that. But if it's going to be the first step to banning them then I definitely am not keen on the idea.

After this whole debarcle is over are they still going to have the crazy law that requires you to have a current E cat gun destroyed in order to import a new one?

Originally Posted by Beetroot

If they are trying to classify them as E cat just so they can make sure responsible gun owners are the ones who own them, I don't really object to that.

I do, there shouldn't be an irresponsible gun owner - if you can own any gun, you should be able to own Any Gun.

After this whole debarcle is over are they still going to have the crazy law that requires you to have a current E cat gun destroyed in order to import a new one?

It's not a law, it's a police policy that has no legislative basis and no practical purpose aside from inconveniencing the most law abiding shooters and costing them a fortune.


I think that with current legislation they'd struggle to enact a policy of a ban on AR15 rifles/parts and have it hold up, short of having "being an AR15/clone" declared an MSSA feature. Which still leaves endorsed firearms and is meaningless as far as preventing any crime at all. It's just a mindless policy of civil disarmament.

Everyone should get their E endorsement and own an MSSA AR15 and a featureless ("A cat")one. And whatever other cool shit they want.