Thread: Exporting/Importing firearms

I received the latest firearms authority email a few days ago and there was a link to information about exporting/importing firearms or parts.
This is a triggering event and looking at the information on their website you have 5 days to register the items and all your firearms.

I thought that from an activating event you had 30 days to register your firearms and other items, not the 5 days they say on the website.

If it's 5 days then when is the activating event? When you apply for the permit to import, when the import permit is granted, when you take a firearm out of the country to go hunting or for a competition or when you import it back into the country

Or are the Police altering the requirements to suit themselves?

Pasted below is the information from the website.

link to the website
https://www.firearmssafetyauthority....rseas-firearms

Firearms Registry impacts

If you have not yet recorded your firearms in the Firearms Registry, taking a firearm overseas (exporting) or importing a firearm (even if it is normally located in New Zealand) are activating circumstances.

If you have not yet registered your firearms you only have 5 days after the export event to register the item(s) and all other firearms and arms items in your possession. If you will be overseas more than 5 days you should complete your registration activities before you travel so that you do not becoming subject to a compliance action.

If you sell or leave the firearm(s) overseas, upon your return to New Zealand, you must tell Te Tari Pūreke that the firearm is now permanently exported and update the status of the firearm(s) in the Registry

Originally Posted by 19Badger

I received the latest firearms authority email a few days ago and there was a link to information about exporting/importing firearms or parts.
This is a triggering event and looking at the information on their website you have 5 days to register the items and all your firearms.

I thought that from an activating event you had 30 days to register your firearms and other items, not the 5 days they say on the website.

If it's 5 days then when is the activating event? When you apply for the permit to import, when the import permit is granted, when you take a firearm out of the country to go hunting or for a competition or when you import it back into the country

Or are the Police altering the requirements to suit themselves?

Pasted below is the information from the website.

link to the website
https://www.firearmssafetyauthority....rseas-firearms

Firearms Registry impacts

If you have not yet recorded your firearms in the Firearms Registry, taking a firearm overseas (exporting) or importing a firearm (even if it is normally located in New Zealand) are activating circumstances.

If you have not yet registered your firearms you only have 5 days after the export event to register the item(s) and all other firearms and arms items in your possession. If you will be overseas more than 5 days you should complete your registration activities before you travel so that you do not becoming subject to a compliance action.

If you sell or leave the firearm(s) overseas, upon your return to New Zealand, you must tell Te Tari Pūreke that the firearm is now permanently exported and update the status of the firearm(s) in the Registry

Good England there, Te Tari Pureke. (sorry, can't work out how to do the accent above the u.)

Originally Posted by Ross Nolan

Good England there, Te Tari Pureke. (sorry, can't work out how to do the accent above the u.)

Yea there is a lot of that on their website, like the person never learnt English at school, but as I've been told some of the things I've learnt don't apply anymore and the grammar has changed.

I'm surprised no one has commented on the 5 days to register all your firearms and firearm items, it must be true then, after all it's on the internet

And export event to me would be when you actually take it out of the country, after all you can have an export or import permit but not actually use it.