Thread: NZ Police Press release

Im 40 now,and when I was 10 or 11 and my brother was 8 I travelled over to Hawaii and went to the huge markets near pearl harbor and bought ourselves 2 realistic looking pistols each,two were water pistols and the other two were a plastic bb firing one.About $1 each.
Travelled to California,san diego,mexico and caught plane back to nz from Hawaii again.

Walked onto several planes in the usa carrying the pistols and no one even blinked.Walked on the plane for home carrying one of them and again no one gave a damn. On the plane they got put away in the walk on luggage.
Getting off the plane somehow the entire planeload went the wrong way and ended up where you had to go through customs to get on the plane again.

NZ customs insisted on checking everyones bags and freaked out about the 4 plastic pistols and confiscated them saying it was too dangerous to carry them on board a plane.

I have laughed about that for 30 years.

But I am all for the banning of replicas and replica air rifles. 12 yr old neighbor pointed his replica .177 air rifle at me a while back and sadly I had to chase him,grab it off him and smash it on the ground for pointing it at me.Caused all issues with his dad and police but anyone points a gun at me and I will not take it kindly.