Thread: Feeling sick after reading this !

Originally Posted by HG Man

If that was the case, we'd be seeing a lot more intercepts in sea containers than we do currently? I can hunt down the report if you are interested, but the amount of weapons seized via sea cargo vs air cargo was massively on the side of air cargo. And its not a case of they aren't looking because we see plenty of drug intercepts in sea cargo.

There are really only 2 ways that legal firearms get into the hands of crims in NZ, straw purchasing and theft.

Sorry but I simply don’t buy that. Of the three thousand million (rounded) containers that come in to New Zealand every year, how many are thoroughly checked by NZ customs let alone checked thoroughly checked for the presence of firearms. I would suggest that of those containers that are checked by customs, their primary focus would be on unwelcome organisms and drugs. I have no reason to believe that NZ Customs intercept all of the drugs that come in to the country in containers and I have even less reason to believe that there aren’t any firearms concealed with the drug shipments that get through. Hell, I wonder how many customs officers would even recognise firearms parts for what they were if they were on an X-ray screen in front of them. Customs simply do not have the resources required to comprehensively inspect every container that comes here.