Election 2017 - Party Policies - Justice, Law and Order - Firearms
27th May 17, 9:23am
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Firearms
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- Opposes proposed changes to the firearm registration process as they are expensive and unenforceable.
- Against giving Police new powers to enter the property of firearm license holders.
- Against the plan to create blunt new categorisations of firearms.
- Read more here.
- Make private ownership of fully functional semi-automatic weapons illegal.
- Investigate the benefits and costs of a low fee, centralised gun registration system and database.
- Reduce the licensing period from ten years to five, in line with practices in the UK, Australia, and Canada.
- Review the vetting procedures in the firearms acquisition certificate, to ensure that they are in line with best practice.
- Read more here.
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- Protect the interests of license holders recognising that New Zealand has some of the world’s lowest rates of gun-crime despite high rates of legal gun-ownership.
- Establish a separate Firearms Authority independent of the Police, to oversee the implementation and enforcement of firearms-related law.
- Read more here.
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