Thread: Useing the firearms register

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

well if dickheads on an A cat didnt keep putting hi capacity magazines in the plurry rifle...and certain retailers hadnt kept selling the two together with a wink wink wink attitude we wouldnt be having this discussion.

how many folks run a different set of tyres n rims on WOF DAY??? enough that it is an issue... and its no different.
how many folks have 2-3-6 trailers and only one registration /numberplate and wof and simply switch them around depending on what they want to use on the day??? I know of 3 folks who have done so for years.

Different sets of rims and tyres aren't really an issue as you don't end up having to list your tyre brand on the rego form. More likely to be an issue is the chipping and modifying of engines/exhausts to really step up power output and then tweaking suspension etc right up to and past the cert requirements. I dunno about the trailers, most people I know rego the trailer for sod all and forget the WOF! Get pulled up for being out of WOF for the trailer for X number of years and it's like Oh yeah - um. Yeah right mate...

Lets not mention the diesels with magic odo switches then. Most of the modern gear can't be done without interrupting the ECU as they record distance travelled for all of the service and warranty requirements, so it's immediately obvious whats going on. Bugger hey?

The hi-cap mags was a bit of a hard one, really was there any difference to connecting mags and just flipping them over or the old competition speedloader setups for shotguns or even stripper clips? If you followed the law there was never an issue - even if there were retailers skirting the system (personally never experienced a retailer selling Ecat firearms who had a stock of hicap mags on the floor - most people got their mags privately or via Trademe after buying a legit A-cat firearm and floated around the restriction that way). As soon as the licensing system went to the pack, that's when the issues started and it followed on from there. The issue now isn't the fact you have switch barrel firearms - it's with the attitude that some people who should know better turn up with come interaction time when they appear to have the belief that there is no such thing as "fit and proper" just people they haven't caught yet.