Thread: From NA to NZ

If you are going to make a second trip after you have got your endorsements and security organised, that would simplify things, however you would need to have your NZ Import Permit in your possesion before you left NZ on the second trip.

If you bring everything with you on the first trip after contacting the NZ Police with a list of the items, you will have to arrange storage of your guns with a suitably licenced person or dealer when you arrive. In any event, so long as you have gone through all the correct steps with the Police, there is no way that your guns will be confiscated. The Police and Customs are obliged to give you time to get all the licence details sorted. If, for some unforseeable reason, you are not permitted to keep some of your guns then the Police must allow them to be sold to some licensed person. If they decided to keep them (highly unlikely) they are then obliged to compensate you for them at the current NZ market value. Subject to having the correct endorsements, there is no restriction on the types of firearm you may own in NZ.