Thread: How to immobilise old fiream to create safe wall hanging

Originally Posted by inglishill

I am confused, if there is no legislation that specifically deals with the subject then there is no 'deactivation'. There is, as you say, no law for it. How can you then argue 'I have been threatened with prosecution in the past, but they never followed through because they knew I was doing it correctly"?

​How can you do it 'correctly' if there is no legislation to guide you?

Is that you Sidney???? Lmfao

My experience in this area is one of over 50 years as a professional gunsmith and also classified by the Courts as an Expert Witness in the subject of firearms and ballistics with over 30 years of experience in that area. I am not encouraging anyone to act unlawfully but merely pointing out that deactivations have been successfully done for many years. It requires a bit of intestinal fortitude, but it is possible. I freely admit that there are passages in NZ legislation that give people legal grounds to take certain (otherwise unlawful) actions in certain circumstances but with the proviso that the burden of proof upon such actions lies on them, vis, the Crimes Act as an example.

Originally Posted by gundoc

My experience in this area is one of over 50 years as a professional gunsmith and also classified by the Courts as an Expert Witness in the subject of firearms and ballistics with over 30 years of experience in that area. I am not encouraging anyone to act unlawfully but merely pointing out that deactivations have been successfully done for many years. It requires a bit of intestinal fortitude, but it is possible. I freely admit that there are passages in NZ legislation that give people legal grounds to take certain (otherwise unlawful) actions in certain circumstances but with the proviso that the burden of proof upon such actions lies on them, vis, the Crimes Act as an example.

Excellent, thank you for the clarification.