Thread: We have too many guns on our streets

Greg O'Connor is scaremongering again with meaningless figures that he has plucked out of thin air. The NZ Police have put a large number of handguns into the illegal pool, Glocks in recent years, and a large and unknown number of .38 S&W Victory revolvers were sold out the backdoor of the Police Armoury when it was in Vivian Street in the 1970's. The Police were changing to .38 Special S&W Model 10's and all the old .38's were sent in to be replaced. They were just chucked into a large box without any records being taken (I saw the box with several hundred revolvers in it when I visited) and they disapeared out the back door every week. The Police Armourer and a couple of others were convicted but the guns had disappeared. The NZ Defence Force has lost large numbers of guns over the years (pistols, SMG's, MG's and rifles) but I have never seen any figures. That would make an interesting question in the house! Add to those the significant numbers of firearms that have been smuggled into NZ over the years from North America and the Eastern Bloc countries (hidden in motor vehicles, engines, etc, and brought in on foreign fishing vessles as a source of ready cash for crew members). The problem does not lie with the lawful firearms owners of NZ! It lies with the armed government departments and slack border security! Of course, the various departments will invoke CYA policies and seek to shift the blame onto innocent parties. They would never admit to anything that would affect their cushy jobs, annual bonuses and extravagant superannuation!