That pic above, Andre'. Jeez... I am old. Good on yer great grandpop.
I was going to school when that pic was taken!
But! by Florida standards (it's about the same size as NZ), you guys are living in a concentration camp. Vaxx checks... I am talking legality here, not whether some real assholes have guns. They do. They are free to do just that, even if they are assholes. As long as they are not criminal assholes.
And yeah... it is "
possible" to get a firearm in NZ. Providing you obey your masters' requirements. Let us examine and compare to Floriduh. I just walked in a gun store recently, and bought a small carry pistol. (A Pug). Walked in, saw the one I wanted. Bought it. Bought some ammo. Walked out. Oh. I
did have to sign a Federal paper saying I am not a crook. <-- We are working on that. Nuffin to do with Florida. The Feds even ignored that restriction when it came to H. Biden and his garbage dumpster pistol that he lied on the
Fed form to get.
I have the cute Pug in my pocket as I type. Many of the folks I see walking around are going heavy. No big thing here at all.
You guys have to prove to your masters that you have a
storage space that is OK with
them. (Arms Amendment 2022).
And for ANY firearm you must have a license. In order to get this license, you must tell your gummint "eyes a-watchin" -- the following is C&P verbatim from NZ law:
- Further information must be supplied by applicants for a firearms licence, including a list of countries travelled to or visited in the previous 5 years involving stays of 14 days or more, and the length of stay in each country, and in cases of applicants residing in an overseas country for over 6 months in the previous 10 years the provision of criminal history checks from those countries.
- Importers of pistol carbine conversion kit, blank-firing gun, or major firearms part that does not have an identification number are required to stamp or engrave an identification number on the item.
- Dealers who receive a firearm, pistol, pistol carbine conversion kit, prohibited firearm, prohibited magazine, restricted airgun, blank-firing gun, restricted weapon, or major firearm part that does not have an identification number are required to stamp or engrave an identification number on the item within 30 days of its receipt.
Compare: For my granddaughter's 10th birthday, I walked in a store, bought a pink .22 Cricket Single Shot and a box of bullets, and gave it to her.
In NZ... I'd be in jail. A
ten-year old walking around with a loaded rifle? GAAAAHHH!! The NZ lawmakers have found that the ability to shoot does not legally exist before
16 years. <-- I never knew that -- I saved up and bought my first rifle when I was 9 years old. Brought it to school.
"Gun licences are issued at the discretion of the police provided
they consider the person to be of good standing." ...aaand: No matter who the heck you are, you are NOT allowed to have a semi-auto gun or even one with a magazine that holds more than ten rounds. <-- Why ten? A number pulled from some bureaucrat's anus? If not, then why does the eleventh round turn evil? (Arms Act 1983) There goes your chance to have what I do: A bringum-home SKS with blood on the strap, with 3000 rounds of ammo and a dozen 20/15/10-round magazines to feed it. <-- Jail in NZ. A prize in America.
The part where I would have had to list how I did in countries I have stayed in recently so I could buy (or continue keep) a gun in NZ would have to include what I did in England, Scotland, Germany, France, Holland, Japan, China, Philippines, Curacao, Bonaire, Caymans, Bahamas, Mexico... jeez -- there are more, but I know I have made my point. In America, the gun laws do not give a shit where you have been.
They only want to know if you have done jail time.
NO LICENSE FOR A RIFLE, GUN, AMMO needed. Not gummint-approved storage. I am lookin' at an AK-47, a .58 calibre Boar rifle, and a Glock 19 from where I sit.
I have a real fargin CANNON, and the police come around on Independence Day with gunpowder for it to help defray the expense of shooting it.
Find me one fargin acre in NZ where you do NOT need a license to buy a gun, where you can put a gun on your hip or in your pocket and walk into a supermarket. Where you can wheel a cannon out onto your front lawn and fire it. Where you can have (like I do) an all-calibre rifle and pistol range in the back yard.
The US Gummint has no fargin clue what guns I have or how many. Shit... even I do not know.
In NZ they keep on
adding restrictions:
Arms Act 1983
Arms Regulations 1992
Arms Amendment Regulations 2021
In Floriduh, they just REMOVED the requirement for a license to OWN and conceal-CARRY a pistol of any kind whatsoever. You want a pistol? Go in and get yours.
Just thought of sumpin' else to increase the huge gulf of freedoms not available in NZ: Black powder rifles and pistols
do not count as firearms in America. You can mail them to your friends. You can buy them by mail from anywhere. I just bought me a new replica tack-driver .44 calibre navy revolver through a mail-order house in
ITALY. Same as buying underwear or a radio from Italy.
There It Is.