Thread: How to lose your NZ Firearms License?

Originally Posted by Nickoli

This sort of thinking is a problem - everyone becomes a criminal of some sort if the prevailing thinking (...or teaching) follows.

Yep, was quite surprised to hear it spoken like that - you kind of inevitably hear it bandied about as an urban legend type deal but from an older more grizzled blueliner it's sort of a concern you are right.

I've had nothing but good experiences from the local arms officer, excepting maybe the time I got a rark up from him for buying a firearm off trademe and trying to sort the mail order form to get it sent through to find out that the guy selling it was overseas and a mate had it blah blah blah. Yeah, not ideal but as I said it wasn't really my problem as I brought it unencumbered off an online auction and was trying to comply with my end of the rules...