Thread: how many of you bought a new rifle to avoid the registration from tomorrow?

I picked up a little ruger ranch 5.56 today, been meaning to get one for a while but finally got the shove by realising after tomorrow buying a rifle means 30 days then registry. How many of you lot did the same?

Maybe 2 or 3 ...... wont be selling em like I usually do though









Well not straight away at least

Yep guilty as charged lol

Yep! Was the nudge I needed to decide on some new toys.

Might have, One I should have sold too, oh well.

Yep just got it paid and shipped...after a bit of a problem with the local police station losing my form 43a (online firearm purchase form).
It's the second time the local station has lost this form, but I got it sorted out with the Arms Officer in Tauranga so it was all successfully completed today.

(work at a gun store) alot of people coming in and grabbing guns today all bwcause they cant be bothered/disagree with registration

Brought a couple at the auction last weekend
But they will be registered by mid next week
I am not in the business of delaying the inevitable

I was cracking up at the auction at what people were paying for ammunition old 30 or 40 year old ammunition was going for the same or more than brand new shop prices it wasn’t valued collectors ammunition either
It was hilarious considering buying ammunition from the shop dosn’t trigger the notification period anyway


few will probably loose their fal when they without understanding trigger the notification period and run out their 30 days

Each to their own but im just gonna do it (after much consideration) I don’t see any point in mucking around

Originally Posted by rambo-6mmrem

Each to their own but im just gonna do it (after much consideration) I don’t see any point in mucking around

There are always headaches with a new online system of registration - bugs and problems that in 6 months will be mostly ironed out.

Originally Posted by rambo-6mmrem

Each to their own but im just gonna do it (after much consideration) I don’t see any point in mucking around

Me too (just gonna do it) - panty wadders gonna get wadded, the shite is better on thier livers than mine . . .

Didn't give it a thought. Hauled my lot out today and started recording their intimate details. Will do the on-line thing when I'm relaxed and in the right frame of mind. Fortunately we have the luxury of time if we don't trigger it. I would rather get it behind me sooner than later. Don't see much point in hand wringing over the inevitable.

Guilty

However I've always kept an excel spreadsheet of all my guns, for my own insurance reasons.

I wonder if we are going to see a slump of secondhand sales on trademe from tomorrow onwards?

Without sounding like a dick can someone please school me up on the issue of the registration?
I’m struggling to see the problem with the registration process if you’re a law abiding citizen? Cheers

Originally Posted by Bushline

Without sounding like a dick can someone please school me up on the issue of the registration?
I’m struggling to see the problem with the registration process if you’re a law abiding citizen? Cheers

Well;

-Government run entities have a track record of not keeping personal data safe.
-The Police in particular have had a bunch of recent cases of staff accessing data they shouldn't, often with links to unsavoury people.
-The Government/Police have basically said the register WILL be safe, meaning they likely don't have a process in place for when/if your data gets leaked, meaning your family may be at risk and the Police are hardly going to put armed guards outside your house 24/7. Once your address and info is out there it will never be able to be retracted.
-The Police don't seem capable of keeping up with changes of address, and couldn't keep correct details of B and E catergory firearms so the registry will likely be full of errors, thus worthless.
-The reasons for putting the register in place seem to based on ideology rather than real number actually backing up LFOs giving their guns to criminals.
-The UK has had firearm registration for decades and has restricted semi-auto centrefire rifles and hand guns for decades, yet criminals don't have an issue getting them.
-Once registation is done the Police will probably be like Australia and the UK where they continue to push more and more restrictions (slippery slope).
-The Police have been threatening to come down hard on LFO who don't play along, yet criminals continue getting slapped with a wet bus ticket.
-You need to follow the rules and do what you are told but the gangs seem to be able to take over towns for a funeral, or break lockdown rules and the Police will stand by and do nothing.

If there is a change of Government the register may well be scraped, even if it's not I'm not going to be first inline to findout if it is actually secure or not.

I handed in my semi autos on the last week of the buy back so will do the same as registation. I'm sick and tired of doing what I'm told when the powers at be don't care about destroying my hobbies/sport, while they let criminals run amuck with little to no resistance.

I could say more but then it'll be deemed political, thus not allowed.