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.

Are you dreaming...? If what you say was even close to being true there would almost be no drugs in NZ at all as they would be intercepted at the border. Here is something I learnt from a former customs officer, If you want 5x containers or two to get in without inspection, send 6- one to each port. We have limited xray machines (it was one for a long time) that are shared between ports. If a container gets picked up, then the machine is not at the other ports.......and considering the numbers of containers entering NZ exceed the population by about 50 to 1 (50 containers per year per person) there is no way every container can be checked . In fact the % is so low that it would scare most people....