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Yeah, i think there's a bit of a misconception caused by the media aye mate.New Zealand and Australia are fucked up worse than America. That is saying a lot. Them pore bastages don't even have decent deer rifles, much less AK-47's.
When your government wants your guns, it is because those running your government want to do something you would shoot them for. No other reason.
Look at France -- Got their asses kicked twice, and still -- any Frog that wants a gun must take a psychological exam. <-- TINS, pilgrims. *IF* they pass, they may buy a specified limited amount of ammo for only that gun.
Look at England -- My Daddy sent his deer rifle and 30.06 ammo to England during the Bundles For Britain campaign, so that some <redacted - see forum guidelines on epithets> would have a gun to use on the Krauts. I wonder what happened to it. And their Firearms Act of 1968 is a compendium covering every possible kind of firearm -- prohibited.
The citizens are helpless. There are no gun stores in the UK. There are lots of Airsoft crap stores labeled "gun stores".
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. View attachment 9369
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:
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. View attachment 9371In 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.
- 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.
"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.
Allow me to clarify things a little.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.
Well, I did not realize I had to speak as in court. The relative size of NZ and Florida is just the concept of ball-park similarity in many respects... a starting place for comparison.View attachment 9380
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Sorry mate but i and many other couldn't give two squirts of shit about no fuckin "licenses" and all that kinda legalese <redacted - see forum guidelines on epithets>gletry.
Allow me to clarify things a little.
So Florida, is about half the size of NZ, and with roughly four times the population.
Ya know the "world maps" ya find in schools & shit, they're far from accurate.
As for "concentration camp",...mate i dunno where ya'll gettin these ideas from.
Now, regarding firearms:
Gun Control NZ
Gun Control NZ advocates for stronger gun laws in New Zealand. We want to see all guns registered, a shorter licensing period and a strengthened ban on semi-automatic weapons. We also support the buy-back of semi-automatic firearms.www.guncontrol.nz Them numbers are way off.
They say that shit to project false sense of "knowing everything" and of "being in control",...it's all fuckin horseshit.
These ideas of this "New Zealand" ya seem to be possessed of, really oughta be reassessed.
Yeah, i think there's a bit of a misconception caused by the media aye mate.
Oh and ahhh, i dunno exactly where you got this idea NZ ain't packin heat.
In relative terms however, whale shit, i doubt either of 'em could be any worse off than US
No. i simply corrected the misconception while also providing a dash of relative insight. That is all.Well, I did not realize I had to speak as in court. The relative size of NZ and Florida is just the concept of ball-park similarity in many respects... a starting place for comparison.
What fabricated "Law" would you like addressed exactly?In your response above, you have not addressed the LAW of your land. If I read you right, you and many others ignore that laws of your country?
"i and many other couldn't give two squirts of shit about no fuckin "licenses" and all that kinda legalese..."
No. my words make my point, not yours.Your own words make my point: Your rulers... the ones with organized police power/might/written law on their side... have made you an outlaw in your own land. Is this not so?
An "outlaw"?You would not be an outlaw, subject to arrest... if you lived in Florida. That was my point.
Really dunno if you're being genuine, but it doesn't matter because i'm simply using basic logic regarding "Law", no more, no less.And I commend you on the way you think about the gun laws of NZ.
Allow me to return the sentiment by clearly stating i am neither "in the" wrong or "right" nor leftarded or contrite.I want to be be very plain here:
It is YOU that are in the right, not those who have openly crippled the freedom of NZ folks with repressive, invasive, bullshit, restrictive laws.
i actually stumbled upon this PMBug site several months ago while searching for something else,...and what drew my attention here was one of your posts.In the 60's there was the cold war, Vietnam, bra burning, draft card burning, police brutality protest and a whole lotta other neat shit going on. And reporting on it all was the American media. Along comes shortwave radio (for me) and a whole new world of news opened up. While some was pure propaganda most wasn't and that made me realize that not everything our media said was true.
Sailing all over Asia, hitting ports and meeting locals reinforced that fact even more. It also showed me that our educational system didn't teach us jack shit about the real world. A lot of the people I met were far ahead of us in geography, American history (yeah - it was true) and how the world actually worked. It was a wake up for me.
One take-a-way I got was that no matter where I went, most people were the same in that they simply wanted to live their life free from oppressive government interference, make a decent living for their family and a chance to get ahead. Most didn't give two shits about politics. They simply wanted to live their lives.
The educational system I went through didn't teach me any of that.
A lot of the stuff Americans are told about firearm laws in other countries is propaganda put out by self interest groups and it's designed to scare people into believing that a boogie man is out to take away their rights.
I can't speak about NZ & AUS, but I can talk about the US and the things that go on here that don't happen anywhere else in the industrialized world. We have more violent crime and mass shootings here in the US that in any other industrialized country in the world. There are more people in prison per capita than in any other country in the world. There are more police shootings here than in any industrialized country in the world. Our government has stuck it's nose in the business of just about every country on the planet while letting the American infrastructure rot and ignoring the plight of some of the most vulnerable citizens here at home.
Some of our politicians bemoan helping the poorest citizens while shoveling skid loads of welfare and big-time tax breaks to big businesses that kick back humongous campaign donations to keep their bought and paid for boot lickers in power so the show never ends.
Americans should read and learn from history least we repeat any mistakes other countries made before they found themselves in the shit can of history.
jm2c - fwiw.
i am currently seeking to ascertain which you may be
Interesting perspective, although it is overtly demonstrating passive aggressiveness and quite difficult to discern whatever the intented meaning may be, let alone precisely who is actually being addressed by this.The following blanket denial somehow manages to be typed out in spite of the actual laws being quoted with dates of the laws in NZ:
"A lot of the stuff Americans are told about firearm laws in other countries is propaganda put out by self interest groups and it's designed to scare people into believing that a boogie man is out to take away their rights."
Not a scintilla of recognition of actual reality of the statement made and proven:
The NZ folks with a sense of what is right actually told us right here their solution is to violate outright the restrictive, crushing gun laws of their country. <-- And the global brush-off sentence in bolded italics above does not acknowledge that the "boogie man" mentioned is the ruling class of NZ itself -- those who make and enforce the published and identified actual restrictive laws. Why is that?
All dismissed with an airy generality about "propaganda" (eg: false statements/lies printed only to "scare people into believing" these laws are merely American boogie-man lies from what Americans are told by "American self-interest groups".) No acknowledgement at all of the actual quoted laws themselves. Why is that?
It is hard to get through the mental concrete of preset beliefs when even quoting and identifying the NZ laws does not dent the "these laws are just propaganda" stance. Why is that?
Even seeing the quotes of a NZ'r who points out that they defy the restrictive laws is not enough to get through the concrete that in NZ, the gun laws ARE very restrictive. Why is that?
It did no good to call out the legal restrictions, identify and quote the actual words and dates of the NZ restrictive laws, and read the actual words of a NZ'r who says that he and others simply violate the NZ restrictive laws. Nope. Lost in the breaking wind of a blanket generality thrown out to cover the truth.
Nope. Easier to stay with "that's my story and I am sticking to it." <-- Easier than acknowledging proof.
The hyperlinks are above -- If you want to "test" the veracity of what you read next. Got that? OK. In the simplest possibobble and irrefutable terms:Interesting perspective, although it is overtly demonstrating passive aggressiveness and quite difficult to discern whatever the intented meaning may be, let alone precisely who is actually being addressed by this.
Could you please clarify—without reliance upon 8 hyperlinks implying substantiation. Ain't nobody got time fer dat sнΐτ. Speak plainly with your own words thank you.
The hyperlinks are above -- If you want to "test" the veracity of what you read next. Got that? OK. In the simplest possibobble and irrefutable terms:
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1. In NZ: You get caught with a rifle, shotgun, or pistol by the cops. YOU GO TO JAIL -- YOU BROKE THEIR LAW!
That's interesting since the plastic people on the screens seem to reckon US cops in general-are infamous for abruptly perforating mofos at the drop of a hat.2. In Florida: You getcaughtnoticed with ditto above in Florida. They smile at you. You are completely legal.
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Whale, eye aim nut shore watt exactly yore arguing about?It gets deeper than what you read above, but only to cement those two statements. The freedom-restricting laws in NZ even go into Airsoft guns. <-- TINS
If you cannot accept Statements 1 and 2 as written, then click on the hyperlinks and get details.
Ok?@André ..................I don't know what kind of American news you get where you're at, so I'll provide a few links to what really happens here:
Gunman who shot 4 allegedly searched online for 'area events where there are crowds'
Closer to home:
Interactive: Mapping Philadelphia's Gun Violence Crisis - Christy Brady, CPA
An interactive application mapping shooting victims in Philadelphia, updated daily.controller.phila.gov
List of mass shootings in the United States in 2023
Why this goes on is beyond me. I don't understand it. But it does go on. And sadly our politicians don't seem to care. Wish I could say more..........but I can't.
I was talking gun laws. Not what some assholes do with guns.
I never said or implied that NZ's can not jump through the hoops and actually, finally get out hunting. Nope.
They certainly can and do -- providing they bend the knee and follow all the rigid things listed in the NZ laws I posted.
But that seems to be incomprehensible; the fact that NZ gun laws are restrictive and invasive when compared to Florida. It was and is my ONLY point.
Compared to New York? <-- New Yorkers might as well be in NZ. Restrictive gun laws. I have a pistol and explosives license valid in New York. The hoops to jump through in NY are just about the same as NZ. My NY license has to show the actual pistol (ser # too). Not so in Florida: No pistol permit required any more.
And to really sum it up -- for level ground purposes -- the gun laws in the U.S. have gotten horrible (even in Florida) compared to the way it was back when I was younger.
Popular Mechanics magazine would mail you a .22 6-shot revolver for $5.95. I bought one in 1960. I bought a Ruger Single Six Dual Cylinder pistol in Washington, Virginia -- by walking in the store, plunking down $87.50, and walking out without even mentioning my name.
As a kid, I saved for a year and got $12.50 saved up. I walked alone into Sears Roebuck &Co., plunked down my quarters, dimes, and pennies on the counter. The salesman handed me my new J.C. Higgins .22 Single Shot rifle and a box of ammunition. I walked down the streets at home, proud as Punch carrying my shiny new rifle... with people smiling at me.
Even brought it to school, where the teacher used it as an example to the class of what you could do if you saved your money.
Those freedoms have been lost in my lifetime.
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