Thread: TV3 & Guncity mistake

Police say they have recovered another pistol from a large collection of guns allegedly sold by a Coromandel collector on the black market.

The Glock automatic pistol was found in a bag by a man who stopped his car on State Highway 25, near Thames on Friday. A sawn-off shotgun was found nearby.

"Operation Might" head Detective Senior Sergeant Greg Nicholls said the pistol was one of 121 restricted weapons police allege collector John Noel Mabey sold on the black market.

Six other weapons have been recovered.

Mabey's collector's licence was revoked at the end of August when he was arrested on 20 firearms offences and a charge of making a false statement to police.

He told police 121 pistols, semi-automatic rifles and sub-machine guns were stolen.

Police offered an amnesty for the return of the haul of weapons.

Mr Nicholls said a man driving on the Kopu-Hikuai Rd stopped to toilet his dog last Friday and found the pistol and shotgun in bush off the road and contacted police.


"While we are grateful two more weapons are off the street police want to remind the public another 114 weapons, including sub-machineguns, pistols, assault rifles and machineguns remain unaccounted for."

his best chance is to change his name to du plesssis allan:
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Most of the illegal firearms are stolen in residential burglaries or from collectors by organised criminal groups, police documents released under the Official Information Act show.

"Research indicates there is already a large pool of illegally held firearms in New Zealand and that firearms of almost any type can be obtained relatively easily from within the criminal fraternity without needing to source illicit firearms from overseas," according to the 2011 National Strategic Assessment paper.

But a request for the total number of guns reported stolen in each police district over the past years was refused - because the records do not exist.

really really fuckin realy
then get off our cases and catch the c...s who are doing it and put the blame and shame where it belongs not on the average law abiding gun owner/user