Thread: Home renovation and gun licence

The condition of your house is irrelevant if you're going to install the gun cabinet, rack etc in your unattached garage. Due to the current delays in Wellington it might pay for you to get your firearms licence (FAL) application underway ASAP.

Your local arms officer (AO) will arrange a time for you to attend the NZ police safety lecture and test. You must pass the test with a minimum of 28/30 of which includes seven questions related to the seven basic firearm safety rules - you must not fail any of those seven questions.

You will need to pay $126.50 for your FAL application. This is done at the post office and you then give the receipt of payment to the AO or a police officer who will pass it on to the AO if the latter is not present.

You will need two additional referees, one of which is your next of kin, spouse or partner and also an unrelated referee. To speed up the process it helps to have both referees in the same town as yourself. You will then be contacted by the arms vettor who will arrange a time with you to visit your place of residence, interview you and examine your security. Interviews with your two referee's will be also arranged, quite often one of which will be living with you.

You should have your security installed when the arms vettor visits your residence otherwise the process will be delayed. In some small towns the AO will do the vetting because they don't have a dedicated firearms vettor.

To the OP, if you're just renewing your FAL then all of the above doesn't apply to you except the first paragraph.