Thread: Illeagal firearms amnesty?

Originally Posted by gundoc

They used to years ago! I bought quite a few firearms from Police auctions (ususally tacked onto NZ Antique Arms auctions but open to the public for police items) but they stopped doing it about 1970. Maybe they were embarrassed by the money they made!

I saw a picture of a sawn off they took off some clown a few years back. It was a mess. I wouldn't want to fire it.
Some of the "grandad's old war trophies " would have been good though.

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Originally Posted by Steve123

I saw a picture of a sawn off they took off some clown a few years back. It was a mess. I wouldn't want to fire it.
Some of the "grandad's old war trophies " would have been good though.

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Police items I can remember buying; 6.5mm Jap Arisaka Carbine $40, M1 Garand $35, super tidy National Postal Meter M1 Carbine $50 (I got growled out by some old NZAAA member for pushing prices up on that one!), .30-06 M17 $40. These rifles were all in as issued condition. I wasn't interested in ordinary sporting rifles much so they mostly sold in the $20-30 range. Before I wax too lyrical about 'the good old days' I remember that I was only taking home about $55 per week in 1969/70 as senior firearms salesman for Tisdalls in Ch-Ch (not counting little perq jobs). I do remember that a jug of beer was less than 40 cents then though!

Originally Posted by gundoc

Police items I can remember buying; 6.5mm Jap Arisaka Carbine $40, M1 Garand $35, super tidy National Postal Meter M1 Carbine $50 (I got growled out by some old NZAAA member for pushing prices up on that one!), .30-06 M17 $40. These rifles were all in as issued condition. I wasn't interested in ordinary sporting rifles much so they mostly sold in the $20-30 range. Before I wax too lyrical about 'the good old days' I remember that I was only taking home about $55 per week in 1969/70 as senior firearms salesman for Tisdalls in Ch-Ch (not counting little perq jobs). I do remember that a jug of beer was less than 40 cents then though!

I'm stoked to here that. My $720 M 17 was worth 100 jugs in the 70's. Means I got an ok deal a couple of years ago

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@gundocyes and you were a bloody decent gunsmith when i encountered you in the mid 80s. that was after i asked around and saw a job you did in building a kitset rifle for a mate of mine..the way you rectified my probs with my .303 and your taking the time to actually show me and explain what you were doing left me with a lasting impression of a true professional and bloody decent bloke!
I dont kiss arse=I tell it how i see it.good luck to you and your whanau.

We should (I would if i knowed how!!! ) send this thread to Bush, Cahill, English and Minister of Cops to eddicate them to our thinking.....