Thread: Could we do more

Originally Posted by stumpy

I have always wondered what the problem with the serial number of any weapon/firearm being logged against a person is ..
if your the owner , when you buy a firearm , why cant it go ,against your FL ?
are people worried about the info leaking into the wrong hands?
or being charged per firearm you own in some sort of registration scheme , like some on here all my firearms are of the endorsed type , I don't own any "A" cat firearms ... don't get pissy and come back in a rant , I am genuinely interested in the why not .
I realise now that to get all of NZ to come up with the number on all their guns and get checked etc would fail ... but it has to start somewhere ... maybe from jan 2017 all weapons bought , new and used must be registred , and I think that a cop at a scrotes house who finds a stolen firearm , if he has a serial number and a previous owner who was burgled then they could tie that crim into that crime , the more he/she is charged with the more they go away for (hopefully ) I personally cant see the harm in it ... but im sure others will .
cheers blair

From my own personal experience, all my B endorsed pistols were "registered" and they could not get that right, ie serial numbers not recorded correctly, not transfered on to or off my licence how can they do better if you add all known licence holders to the system ???