Thread: B Cat Safe.... info required please.

Yes, you are right a steel box constructed as a one off restricted storage device needs to be 6mm Mild steel or equivalent BUT a commercially available safe doesn't have to be 6mm mild steel (as this vettor kept telling me it had to be... obviously he doesn't know his own rules very well) but they do need an independent engineers report... and as I postulated earlier shouldn't the Firearms vettors (or at least the AO whose jurisdiction you come under) have a copy of these engineers certificates for each model or type of safe sold in NZ to be referenced BEFORE turning up and telling you you're not secure?

Wouldn't the safe have been researched for compliance when I put in for my restricted and it, the property and the area was thoroughly inspected and as long as nothing has changed structurally to the property or the safe hasn't been moved, the law not changed then if it was compliant in 2012 then it must by definition be compliant now... unless the "new" vettor is saying that the old vettor of many years standing was actually professionally incompetent (and I wouldn't like to pay the compensation in a law suit if that one ever went to court).

Are these civilian vettors now saying that the burden of proof of fitness for purpose lies with anyone who buys a commercially sold firearms safe to prove that what they have bought to do a job is actually up to the the specifications to do the job it was bought for?

Found this section (over 2 pages) in the "conditions and requirements for firearms licenses and endorsements" NZ Police form Number POL 67N



Cheers to all
Very much appreciated
H_E