Thread: Firearms Storage Inspection ....

Originally Posted by Glycerine

times are different now and so are the rules... do you leave your house unlocked when you go out now?

here in Auckland the people I know with gun safes, have had to put a lock on the door on the cupboard/room and windows they are in, weather they use them or not (this was when getting E endorsement)

Times sure are different now . I live rural. Saw our neighbour get robbed a couple of years ago - their house is about 180 meters from us.

Didn’t immediately gel what was happening – saw car drive up the 150 meter drive and straight under their house (open garage under house). Around a minute later they started to depart.
I said to the wife “holy shit, I think the neighbours have just been robbed”. It all happened that quick. Car headed towards town.

Fortunately we were able to raise the neighbour on the other side and they noted the car's rego as it went past and rung the cops. Amazingly the cops picked them up about 30k away – they were known to the cops. And the car was theirs, not stolen, so they were traceable.

They had the neighbour’s chainsaw and some workshop tools in the boot. As I said, around a minute and gone.