Introduction from USA

Hello All,

New to this site, while I have gave a brief history of myself will add a bit more.

Joined this site as I find a lot of information here on the Norinco Arms, as I have a JW15 and found I could make this rifle into a very nice shooter and nice looking firearm. Since the powers to be here in the USA have banned Norinco fire arms I look to where I can find the info. needed.

That said, I was born and raised in the USA, Minnesota to be exact. Hibbing,MN in the heart of the Range Country meaning the Iron Range. Have been mining iron ore here since the 1800's to present day,as well as other Precious Metals have become a big thing also.

My Family came from England and maybe France in the 1600's.

Due to health I no longer hunt but I do like to shoot that being small bore the most. I have a number of .22 rimfire rifles and hand guns, also 17 HMR and 17 WSM (Winchester Super Magnum)and a Winchester 7mm Winchester Short Magnum. Handguns .22's 22mag, 380,357 mag, 9mm 45acp.

It also is nice to see what the other side of the World so to speak do with their firearms and such. I know your Gun Law's are much tougher than ours, though if we are not careful we may find ourselves in a deep fix. We have far to many well placed and well off folks who would like to take them away. Including the United Nations who would dearly love to control firearms here in the USA, NO WAY !!


I look forward to the different kinds of information I can gain from this site and maybe give a little also.

The Silver Hawk II,
D.H.Wakefield
rimfiremag@gmail.com

Welcome SilverHawkII.

Please tell me more about the banning of norinco arms in USA, Is this a measure to protect the firearms manufacture industry there?

G'day SilverHawkll

Welcome to the best Hunting and Shooting forum on the net.

Legally gaining a firearms licence and purchasing a Rifle here in NZ is not very difficult at all, gaining the correct endorsements to own an MSSA's is also not difficult but it does take slightly more time and of course more money.
Gaining and endorsement to own a Pistol is more difficult, one has to join a Pistol Club, be a Probationary Member for at least 6 months, gain endorsement from the Pistol Club to support your application and upgrade your security all of which takes a lot of time and effort and costs considerably more than gaining a standard firearms licence.

Our biggest difficulty comes when we wish to purchase Firearms and Firearms parts from outside of NZ.
Gaining and import permit is a simple process as long as the Firearm required is already on the approved import list.
Getting the same firearm and in some cases parts and optics exported from the country of origin, especially the USA, can sometimes be the difficult bit.

But that said we have it pretty good here.

Look forward to reading more of your posts.

Cheers
Pete

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Welcome SilverHawkII.

Please tell me more about the banning of norinco arms in USA, Is this a measure to protect the firearms manufacture industry there?

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Because Norinco supply weapons to enemies of the US.

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Originally Posted by Banana

Because Norinco supply weapons to enemies of the US.

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Ah so anyone then ;)

Welcome to the forum Silverhawk. Good to have you on board.