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Mainlanders are twice as likely to own a firearm than North Islanders.
About 8 per cent of South Islanders are standard firearm licence holders, compared to just 4 per cent in the North Island, according to police data.
About one in 10 people have a firearm licence in the Tasman police district, an area that runs from Kaikoura, around the top of the South Island and down the West Coast to Haast. In contrast, Auckland City police district has just 6000 licence holders, or about one in 70 people.
Canterbury has more licence holders than any other New Zealand police district, with about 34,000 licensed people, or 6 per cent of the population.
