Thread: Guys, please adivise...re discharging a firearm...

Originally Posted by 223nut

Tangent from this thread.... What are restrictions regarding ammunition storage when travelling? In a pack under supervision.... In your pocket.... Back of an unlocked truck out of sight....

Separate from mags and guns is the way to go. Maybe not so much law. But defs common sense.

Hunting on DOC land this is what it states
No firearm shall be discharged:
in the vicinity of huts, tracks, campsites, road-ends or other public places
within 500 m of a Great Walk hut or track
in a manner that endangers, frightens or annoys members of the public
in a manner that endangers any property.

Plus obeying anything in the firearm act. Is 50m deemed to be in the "vicinity... more than likely. Is 500m deemed in the 'vicinity"...unlikely but i suppose it depends where and who

Originally Posted by LOC

what are the rules with shooting from boats? is it just the same as above? i can't see anything in the firearms code nor anywhere else

A year or 3 back i have seen a condition of shooting in a boat where it was stated that you could only hold/discharge a loaded gun when the boat was at anchor only,not drifting, not aloud to be under motor/power. this was on a permit i had from the waikato DoC.


Just found this http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8711...-duck-shooters

Originally Posted by Koshogi

That is viewed as internal magazines by many. It hasn't been interpreted by a NZ court yet (AFAIK).

A loaded magazine, not attached to a firearm is not viewed as "Loaded" in TOETs or drills in either the military or NZ Police, or even civilian range commands. So how could it be interpreted otherwise?

Wasn't this the prob with the Auck gun store owner who stopped a machete cutting him up by having a loaded mag ready to go? Strange law but at least he survived.

Originally Posted by Maca49

Wasn't this the prob with the Auck gun store owner who stopped a machete cutting him up by having a loaded mag ready to go? Strange law but at least he survived.

I think it was more that the loaded magazine was already in the pistol and sitting in the top drawer of the desk.

A couple of years I went into the shop while in Auckland. The bullet hole in the glass was still there and the fired case was on display in the gun room with a t-shirt saying "Don't take a machete to a gun fight."

[QUOTE=223nut;521886]As an aside, I have been told that pilots are allowed to carry a loaded firearm on-board if there are live animals being transported!

Asked the wife about this. She has a LOT to do with international transportation of horses.
1 The first thing they do is lower the oxygen levels if the animal plays up. There all in individual boxs.
2 If it's still going nuts then bolt gun.
As far as she knows the pilot would not need to carry the gun it would be the groom our vet that would handle the bolt gun.
Which makes sense as pilot would not have time to get to the hold.

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

I know a vet who had a bit to with air freighting horses "way back".
He reckoned the best way to deal to a horse with issues on a plane was a quick man with an axe.

How did he get that through the X-ray machine? oh smuggled inside the horses