Thread: Bring guns over from Europe? Worth the headache?

Currently in Europe (Romania) for another year before moving permanently to NZ with my wife. Have a nice Blaser R93 over here that I'd like to bring over. Plan is to first go to NZ, get my firearms license, and then maybe after a year when all the paperwork is finished, fly back to Romania and bring the gun over.

Has anyone done this before? Is it straightforward or more hassle than it's worth? Getting an EU passport for the firearm seems pretty straight forward over here which allows me to exit the country with the gun to any other EU country. I never applied for the. NZ import permit so I don't know how difficult that is to get through. Also there are no direct flights from Romania to NZ, generally you would transit through Qatar, which from some Google searches seems to be fine with transporting firearms through with some basic declarations and paperwork.

If anyone has done this and could give some feedback as to how difficult this process is, or can point me in the right direction for research I would greatly appreciate it. The paperwork from the NZ side seems pretty straight forward, I just don't know much about the process of moving firearms through the airports.