Thread: Permit to Procure - Serialised components vs complete firearms.

Up until now, whenever I have a firearm cited to get a permit signed, I have stripped it down to just the serialised component plus whatever I can't get off without specialised tools. I would then take that to the AO and have it cited, for the purpose of being discrete.

Today I took my new NEA-25 to the Auckland Central station to have the firearm cited and my permit to procure signed. As per the usual I had removed all the components I could and had only the serialized components. I was immediately told by the AO that this was unacceptable and that I needed to present an entire firearm for citing in order to have my permit signed. I questioned this, asking what would happen if I had only bought a serialised lower with no other components? Her reply was that "You wouldn't have been given a permit for a gun unless it was for an entire gun." She then went on to say that lots of people with "AK-15s or whatever they are" are bringing in "just the little bit". She then, after conferencing with some colleagues behind closed doors, agreed to sign my permit.

Has anyone else run into this? Is this a new policy? I called Kevin on the shore to check and he had a rather non-committal answer that "they weren't technically wrong".