Thread: What needs to be registered

Weirdly this website https://www.firearmssafetyauthority.govt.nz/ has all the info about what to measure and how to. Go there and have a good look around. If you can navigate this forum you can navigate the website. It even says what to do if your serial number contains things that are not western alphabet or numbers.

Originally Posted by stug

Weirdly this website https://www.firearmssafetyauthority.govt.nz/ has all the info about what to measure and how to. Go there and have a good look around. If you can navigate this forum you can navigate the website. It even says what to do if your serial number contains things that are not western alphabet or numbers.

Identification markings
You cannot register an arms item online if it:

has no identification marking, or
has one that uses characters other than A-Z, 0-9, slashes and dashes.
For help, call our Registry and Services team on 0800 844 431 between 8.30am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.

-------------- So, if you can't register online using an * every Lee Enfield No1MkIII* or No4Mk1* or any other UK firearm using a * to denote it's a modified version from the original pattern forces you have to phone in and can't register online. I have one word for that, stats with F and ends in K and the middle two letters reference the UK (well UC but you get the idea). Jeysus Christ on a motorbike, that's circa 100,000 firearms by itself...

Ahhhh, the joy of leaving projects like this to the brains trust...

Originally Posted by No.3

Identification markings
You cannot register an arms item online if it:

has no identification marking, or
has one that uses characters other than A-Z, 0-9, slashes and dashes.
For help, call our Registry and Services team on 0800 844 431 between 8.30am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.

-------------- So, if you can't register online using an * every Lee Enfield No1MkIII* or No4Mk1* or any other UK firearm using a * to denote it's a modified version from the original pattern forces you have to phone in and can't register online. I have one word for that, stats with F and ends in K and the middle two letters reference the UK (well UC but you get the idea). Jeysus Christ on a motorbike, that's circa 100,000 firearms by itself...

Ahhhh, the joy of leaving projects like this to the brains trust...

You're well overthinking it. If the online form lets you put a "*" in it then just put the "*" in it and call it a day. I'd even go so far to not even worry about the "*" at all if you can't enter it. Just call the damn thing a SMLE MKIII or Enfield No4MKI etc and done.

Originally Posted by No.3

Identification markings
You cannot register an arms item online if it:

has no identification marking, or
has one that uses characters other than A-Z, 0-9, slashes and dashes.
For help, call our Registry and Services team on 0800 844 431 between 8.30am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.

-------------- So, if you can't register online using an * every Lee Enfield No1MkIII* or No4Mk1* or any other UK firearm using a * to denote it's a modified version from the original pattern forces you have to phone in and can't register online. I have one word for that, stats with F and ends in K and the middle two letters reference the UK (well UC but you get the idea). Jeysus Christ on a motorbike, that's circa 100,000 firearms by itself...

Ahhhh, the joy of leaving projects like this to the brains trust...

It's only the serial number field where this applies . . .

Originally Posted by Tentman

It's only the serial number field where this applies . . .

Nice of them to specify that. Still doesn't help when you have a symbol in the serial number though. That's the joy of databases - the symbols are used as functional operatives and the serial number input in the database needs to be a searchable field. Having an operative in the field means it fails as a searchable, oops.