Thread: The NSA has a warning and you won't believe it until you read this

Originally Posted by kotuku

gadge -there is no mention of firearms in mental health act -whereas under it a committed patient(sec30MHA)has their drivers license revoked automatically ,and a process is detailed around how the person goes about getting said license back I was present earlier this week when a police sgt revoked a guys license ,and in a discussion later he agreed with me -it would be simpler.Of course persuading the braid brass &bullshitters @police ivory tower ,and the "Rambo gun'MPs in the sheepshed in wellington ,is an althogether different story.

Because it is in the firearms act already it does not need to be in the mental health act.

27 Revocation and surrender of firearms licence

(1)

Where, in the opinion of a commissioned officer of Police,—
(a)

any person who has been issued with a firearms licence is not a fit and proper person to be in possession of a firearm or airgun; or
(b)

access to any firearm or airgun in the possession of the person to whom a firearms licence has been issued is reasonably likely to be obtained by any person—
(i)

whose application for a firearms licence or for a permit under section 7 of the Arms Act 1958, or for a certificate of registration under section 9 of the Arms Act 1958 has been refused on the ground that he is not a fit and proper person to be in possession of a firearm or airgun; or
(ii)

whose certificate of registration as the owner of a firearm has been refused under section 10 of the Arms Act 1958 on the ground that he is not a fit and proper person to be in possession of a firearm; or
(iii)

whose firearms licence has been revoked on the ground that he is not a fit and proper person to be in possession of a firearm or airgun; or
(iv)

who, in the opinion of a commissioned officer of Police, is not a fit and proper person to be in possession of a firearm or airgun—

the commissioned officer of Police may, by notice in writing under his hand, revoke the firearms licence, and the person to whom that firearms licence has been issued shall upon demand surrender the licence to a member of the Police.

(2)

Any person may at any time surrender a firearms licence held by him.

(3)

Where a licence is revoked under subsection (1) or surrendered under subsection (2), the person to whom the licence has been issued shall cease to be licensed to possess firearms, airguns, pistols, or restricted weapons by virtue of that licence or any endorsement on it.

The main issue is the police picking it up and running with it.