Thread: Feeling sick after reading this !

Originally Posted by HG Man

How much rounding are you doing on that? Thats 3 Billion containers. There are roughly 65-70K a month coming into NZ, thats 800K, rounded. Another thing, you are confusing Biosecurity and Customs. I'd suggest you have a read of the Customs Annual Report, it gives a good background on how they are doing.

'Customs simply do not have the resources required to comprehensively inspect every container that comes here'. No one says they do, but to suggest that somehow they are only finding the shipments with drugs and not the ones with drugs and guns doesn't make any sense.

Why would you go to all the trouble of importing guns, when you can just send an clean skin to a gun shop and buy what you need, or just rob someone and steal their firearms?

Happy to concede that my number relating to containers was grossly inaccurate (not intentional). But even by using your numbers that is still a couple of thousand containers per day and I don’t for a moment believe that they all get inspected. To answer your question as to why you would go to the trouble my answer is because it would be easy and would yield far greater quantities than your suggested clean skin or theft.