Thread: Protesting Confiscation Events

@ebf

In response to your generosity - I'll start with the low-hanging fruit of the 1990 Act

New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 / #26:

Retroactive penalties and double jeopardy

(1)No one shall be liable to conviction of any offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute an offence by such person under the law of New Zealand at the time it occurred.

(2)No one who has been finally acquitted or convicted of, or pardoned for, an offence shall be tried or punished for it again.

So:

1. Is the forcible confiscation of firearms not a retroactive penalty?

2. How can we be legally subject to an amnesty (which by its very definition is only applicable to criminals) when purchase and possession of firearms was not "an offence by such person under the law of New Zealand at the time it occurred"?