Thread: Discussion Document regarding Arms Act

Originally Posted by Friwi

On the contrary , that should stay as it is.( regarding current reloading components requirements)

- we need to no longer have a form to fill when buying or selling an A-cat stock, barrel and trigger and mag.
- we have a good number of passionate and skilled guys who have sharpen their skills at either stock work ( shaping , finishing , bedding , checkering, ….) , metal work and finish , carbon stock making, cerakoting …etc. But because of the current law, there is requirement for any of those guys who would like to make their passion a business to have a full dealer licence .
All the burdens that one has to navigate through to even get started when you don’t even know if it will be slightly profitable kind of kill the chicken in the egg.
I feel that there should be some sort of intermediate licence or just a simple form to fill where an A cat licence holder who would like to start engaging in this sort of business , specifically part time, could do so with out having the burden of having a gun dealer licence .

- when we, Fal holders,are travelling abroad with our firearm, we should not have to apply for a permit to import upon our re entry, specially if our firearms are already registered .
- reduce the time to generate an import permit for foreign hunters back to a month or under as it used to be. NZ needs the money of those American trophy hunters who spend largely here.

These are a few of the things that will be in my submission

Great ideas @Friwi.
Common sense didn't have a lot to do with the changes. Most gun friendly experts and their advice werent included.
Their experts didn't want to make it easy anyway.
The idea about making it easier to bring your own firearms back into the country is a great idea.
None of it was done to make it easy but that was probably some of the point.
It's interesting to hear a viewpoint like yours partly from a business perspective.