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“Two more blunders just this week show ACT has been correct to oppose the creation of a firearms registry,” says ACT MP and licensed firearms owner Cameron Luxton.
“As ammunition purchases became an activating event for the firearms registry this week, the system for dealer transactions was down.
“Police have known about the deadline since before the registry launched in 2023. It has no excuse not to deliver a functioning digital system for ammunition sales.
“Also this week, media has reported that a Police officer inappropriately accessed the Police database 1,700 times. ACT is aware of six breaches involving firearms data by Police since 2019”.
This is yet more evidence that Police cannot be trusted with the private firearms data of LFOs, and of the risks associated with centralising such sensitive information in the registry said Cameron Luxton.
Canadas $2 billion bill.
“Information in the firearms registry, if leaked, will become a steal-to-order list for gangs and criminals. If privacy breaches keep happening, New Zealanders will be less safe.
Overseas experience has shown that full registration of firearms doesn’t work. The cost of Canada’s firearms register blew out to over $2 billion, achieved only limited participation from firearms owners, and was then dumped in 2011.
Like the gun ‘buyback’, responsible firearm owners will be forced to comply while gang members carry on their merry way and ignore it. There will be no change to the number of illegal guns on the street.
“While we acknowledge the Government’s position, we have agreed to disagree on the registry issue. Attempting to register every firearm in the country, and centralising this information within an agency which has shown time and again that it cannot be trusted to manage it, is foolish,” said Cameron Luxton.
Cameron Luxton
Why don’t police ministers – and the police – take heed of Canada’s costly failure in attempting a firearm registry? Encouraging to see Cameron Luxton and ACT, not forgetting the admiurable MP, NicoleMcKee standing up for comm0n-sense about firearms.
Following the 2019 tragic and unprecedented shootings at two Christchurch mosques in March, the Ardern Labour government the New Zealand Parliament rushed through legislation in a panicked fashion designed to remedy the event. Ardern’s hasty law failed. Gang shootings increased.
According to one “expert” it’s important that of the several issues police had identified with firearms policy in recent years, eight of these could have been addressed by operational changes and just one required a legislative fix. Ardern and her sycophantic cabinet attacked the law abiding public.
I have yet to hear police and government – and Labour – apologise for giving the terrorist Tarrant a firearms/ammunition licence.
Where is the shooter now? In prison here? I do not think so.
Just another successful failure.
As an LFO we are required to install gun cabinets in a location where they can’t easily be seen from outside the house. Makes sense. And yet guns on the registry, as we are learning, basically 100% visible to a well placed insider. 1700 views? We aren’t stupid: the registry is nothing less than a shopping list for gangs.
Why was Treason erased from NZ’s statute books in the mid 1980’s by Geoffrey Palmer. Governments, left and right are now puppets of the Global Mafi, the super rich using the United Nations, NGO’s and numerous Foundations. Ardern was / still is one of their brain washed pin up poster girls. The Global Mafia do not want a well armed civil population because they are scared them. For the same reason Treason was erased from NZ’s statute books in the mid 1980’s by Geoffrey Palmer. Governments, left and right are now puppets of the Global Mafi, the super rich using there United Nations, NGO’s and numerous Foundations. Ardern was / still is one of their brain washed pin up poster girls.
The Global Mafia do not want a well armed civil population because they are scared them.
United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)
Most positive elements in our society have potential downsides. Vehicles are good – but they can be driven dangerously and crash, killing and injuring occupants, and other innocent people. The same can be said of aircraft. Similarly, knives, axes, chainsaws, hammers, and just about any other blunt instrument can be used as a weapon. But the “good to society” of all of these things outweighs the bad .. and we accept or manage their downsides.
Lawful and legitimate Firearms acquisition, ownership, possession, and use, in New Zealand brings many benefits. Indeed, firearms are vital to our way of life. They empower and enable activities that contribute enormously to modern New Zealand’s social, cultural, democratic, environmental, conservation, mental, physical, spiritual and economic wellbeing.
Firearms License Holders in New Zealand would support fair and reasonable changes to firearms acquisition, ownership, possession, and use of firearms in New Zealand .. that would actually and cost-effectively make New Zealand safer.
The Firearms Registry is no such change.
Whilst intuitively, it sounds like a great idea (which is why politicians have been conned into supporting it) . In reality, it is an expensive exercise in virtue-signalling, that our cash-strapped country can ill-afford.
It is a massive undertaking by our Police to introduce and administer .. and there are far more important priorities that would offer a better payback to them, and to society.
As every thinking, hard-working frontline Police Officer knows .. and as the Canadian experience illustrates .. it has not (and will not) make one iota of difference .. in making them, or anyone else safer.
The day will surely come .. when this will be recognised, and like Canada, New Zealand will abandon it.
Let us hope this day comes soon .. so we can limit the taxpayer money that is wasted .. and start spending the money on things that will actually make a real, cost-effective difference.