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====Personal protection of very important persons (VIPs)==== |
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It is established New Zealand law and public policy that allowing privately owned guns to be carried by people who provide personal protection to VIPs, whether foreign or domestic, is not appropriate. Armed protection, if necessary, should be provided by the New Zealand Police or the New Zealand Defence Forces.<ref>{{cite report |author=Alliance minority view |author-link= |
It is established New Zealand law and public policy that allowing privately owned guns to be carried by people who provide personal protection to VIPs, whether foreign or domestic, is not appropriate. Armed protection, if necessary, should be provided by the New Zealand Police or the New Zealand Defence Forces.<ref>{{cite report |author=Alliance minority view |author-link=Alliance_(New_Zealand_political_party) |date=1999 |title=Arms Amendment Bill: As Reported From The Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee |url=http://nzlii.org/nz/legis/hist_bill/aab19992372158/ |publisher=New Zealand Government |page=iii |docket=1999 (237–2) |access-date=20 January 2019}}</ref> The New Zealand Police has a [[Diplomatic Protection Service]] (DPS) that trains and provides protection officers to protect VIPs. DPS protection officers, unlike most New Zealand police officers, are routinely armed while on duty. A temporary exception was made for the 1999 APEC Summit, hosted in Auckland. The Arms Act was specifically amended to allow authorised personal protection officers of foreign dignitaries to carry their own firearms.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Nicholas |title=City gearing up for 2021 Apec hoopla |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11577063 |access-date=27 April 2019 |work=NZ Herald |date=21 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Changes To Arms Act For APEC |url=https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/changes-arms-act-apec-0 |publisher=beehive.govt.nz |access-date=27 April 2019}}</ref> This exception expired on 30 September 1999.<ref name=a1 /><ref name=a2 /><ref name=a3 /> |
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====Self-defence==== |
====Self-defence==== |
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=== 2009–2018 === |
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In August 2009, the police decided that any firearm, including single-shot bolt-action rifles, with a free-standing pistol grip that could allow the firearm to be shot inaccurately from the hip would be defined as an MSSA.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/2742360/Police-warning-on-new-weapons-rules|title=Police warning on new weapons rules|website=Stuff| date=18 August 2009 |language=en|access-date=2020-01-23}}</ref> However, the High Court rejected this attempt in Lincoln v Police [2010] BCL 194; 33 TCL 11/2. Parliament subsequently amended the Arms Act as a result of the court decision.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/bills-and-laws/bills-digests/document/49PLLawBD18811/arms-military-style-semi-automatic-firearms-and-import|title=Arms (Military Style Semi-automatic Firearms and Import Controls) Amendment Bill 2011: Bills Digest No 1881 – New Zealand Parliament|website=Parliament.nz |
In August 2009, the police decided that any firearm, including single-shot bolt-action rifles, with a free-standing pistol grip that could allow the firearm to be shot inaccurately from the hip would be defined as an MSSA.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/2742360/Police-warning-on-new-weapons-rules|title=Police warning on new weapons rules|website=Stuff| date=18 August 2009 |language=en|access-date=2020-01-23}}</ref> However, the High Court rejected this attempt in Lincoln v Police [2010] BCL 194; 33 TCL 11/2. Parliament subsequently amended the Arms Act as a result of the court decision.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/bills-and-laws/bills-digests/document/49PLLawBD18811/arms-military-style-semi-automatic-firearms-and-import|title=Arms (Military Style Semi-automatic Firearms and Import Controls) Amendment Bill 2011: Bills Digest No 1881 – New Zealand Parliament|website=Parliament.nz}}</ref> |
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In 2015, a TV reporter demonstrated how to subvert processes to purchase a gun by mail-order.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/73263428/null|title=Reporter's gun purchase 'like a terrorist activity'|website=Stuff.co.nz| date=22 October 2015 }}</ref> Police promptly changed their mail-order processes and commenced a criminal investigation. |
In 2015, a TV reporter demonstrated how to subvert processes to purchase a gun by mail-order.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/73263428/null|title=Reporter's gun purchase 'like a terrorist activity'|website=Stuff.co.nz| date=22 October 2015 }}</ref> Police promptly changed their mail-order processes and commenced a criminal investigation. |
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In July 2017 a [[doomsday prepper]] Quinn Patterson, 56, used MSSA weapons to kill two property inspectors, wound a contractor accompanying them and skirmish with police for several hours before taking his own life. Even though he was denied a firearms licence in 2016 on the grounds that he was not a "fit and proper person", he befriended a former soldier with a type A licence, bought arms on his name and equipped them with large-capacity magazines, an investigation found later<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/return-to-mt-tiger-what-we-now-know-about-northland-killer-quinn-pattersons-weapons-project/WMYGRJYHQYRJYCSO6RNHKE73KM/ | title=Double killer's weapons project laid bare | date=29 June 2023 }}</ref> (the friend was sentenced to 12 months of [[home detention]]<ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/07/michael-hayes-sentenced-to-12-months-home-detention-for-supplying-guns-to-double-murderer-quinn-patterson.html| title = Michael Hayes sentenced to 12 months home detention for supplying guns to double murderer Quinn Patterson {{!}} Newshub| newspaper = Newshub}}</ref>). |
In July 2017 a [[doomsday prepper]] Quinn Patterson, 56, used MSSA weapons to kill two property inspectors, wound a contractor accompanying them and skirmish with police for several hours before taking his own life. Even though he was denied a firearms licence in 2016 on the grounds that he was not a "fit and proper person", he befriended a former soldier with a type A licence, bought arms on his name and equipped them with large-capacity magazines, an investigation found later<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/return-to-mt-tiger-what-we-now-know-about-northland-killer-quinn-pattersons-weapons-project/WMYGRJYHQYRJYCSO6RNHKE73KM/ | title=Double killer's weapons project laid bare | date=29 June 2023 }}</ref> (the friend was sentenced to 12 months of [[home detention]]<ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/07/michael-hayes-sentenced-to-12-months-home-detention-for-supplying-guns-to-double-murderer-quinn-patterson.html| title = Michael Hayes sentenced to 12 months home detention for supplying guns to double murderer Quinn Patterson {{!}} Newshub| newspaper = Newshub}}</ref>). |
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The government introduced the ''Arms (Firearm Prohibition Orders and Firearms Licences) Amendment Bill'' to implement several of the recommendations shortly before the [[2017 New Zealand general election|2017 election]] but it lapsed with the change of government. It was subsequently drawn as a member's bill but it failed to pass at the first reading.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20180905_20180905_23|title=Arms (Firearms Prohibition Orders) Amendment Bill — First Reading – New Zealand Parliament|website=Parliament.nz |
The government introduced the ''Arms (Firearm Prohibition Orders and Firearms Licences) Amendment Bill'' to implement several of the recommendations shortly before the [[2017 New Zealand general election|2017 election]] but it lapsed with the change of government. It was subsequently drawn as a member's bill but it failed to pass at the first reading.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20180905_20180905_23|title=Arms (Firearms Prohibition Orders) Amendment Bill — First Reading – New Zealand Parliament|website=Parliament.nz}}</ref> The Minister also directed Police to improve their administrative processes and consultation with the firearms community. |
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Prime Minister [[Jacinda Ardern]] was the chair of an executive committee which in 2018 ushered through amendments to the Arms Regulations 2002, to allow Police to accept and process various applications concerning firearms licences and weapons transactions electronically.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wall |first1=Tony |title=Changes to gun law overseen by Jacinda Ardern criticised |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/111438784/changes-to-gun-law-overseen-by-jacinda-ardern-described-as-crazy |access-date=25 April 2019 |work=Stuff |date=21 March 2019}}</ref> The Arms (Electronic Transactions) Amendment Regulations 2018<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2018/0271/latest/096be8ed8181b822.pdf|title=Arms (Electronic Transactions) Amendment Regulations 2018|website=Legislation.govt.nz|access-date=20 March 2019}}</ref> were published in the ''Gazette'' on 20 December 2018. Previously under the Arms Act, if someone wanted to become a gun dealer, get a firearms licence, import a restricted weapon, or get a permit to buy a military-style semi-automatic, they had to physically deliver an application to their nearest police station. The regulations also allow for a buyer of a restricted weapon to show that weapon to police by video call – whereas in the past they had to take it into the station. |
Prime Minister [[Jacinda Ardern]] was the chair of an executive committee which in 2018 ushered through amendments to the Arms Regulations 2002, to allow Police to accept and process various applications concerning firearms licences and weapons transactions electronically.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wall |first1=Tony |title=Changes to gun law overseen by Jacinda Ardern criticised |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/111438784/changes-to-gun-law-overseen-by-jacinda-ardern-described-as-crazy |access-date=25 April 2019 |work=Stuff |date=21 March 2019}}</ref> The Arms (Electronic Transactions) Amendment Regulations 2018<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2018/0271/latest/096be8ed8181b822.pdf|title=Arms (Electronic Transactions) Amendment Regulations 2018|website=Legislation.govt.nz|access-date=20 March 2019}}</ref> were published in the ''Gazette'' on 20 December 2018. Previously under the Arms Act, if someone wanted to become a gun dealer, get a firearms licence, import a restricted weapon, or get a permit to buy a military-style semi-automatic, they had to physically deliver an application to their nearest police station. The regulations also allow for a buyer of a restricted weapon to show that weapon to police by video call – whereas in the past they had to take it into the station. |
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== Statistical indicators == |
== Statistical indicators == |
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The Thorp inquiry found that reliable information was not available to answer basic questions about the number and types of firearms owned, used, traded, sold by the army, lost, stolen, or destroyed; people owning and using firearms legally or illegally; surrendered, revoked or refused firearms licences; re-licensing compliance; crime committed with firearms; and the cost of administering licensing and enforcement.<ref name=ThorpS13p5>{{cite book |last=Thorp |first=Thomas |date=20 June 1997 |title=Review of Firearms Control in New Zealand: Report of an Independent Inquiry Commissioned by the Minister of Police |chapter=1.3 Significance of Weak Information Base|url=http://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/review-of-firearms-control-in-new-zealand.pdf |location=Wellington |publisher=GP Print |pages=5–7 |isbn=0-477-01796-7 |author-link= |
The Thorp inquiry found that reliable information was not available to answer basic questions about the number and types of firearms owned, used, traded, sold by the army, lost, stolen, or destroyed; people owning and using firearms legally or illegally; surrendered, revoked or refused firearms licences; re-licensing compliance; crime committed with firearms; and the cost of administering licensing and enforcement.<ref name=ThorpS13p5>{{cite book |last=Thorp |first=Thomas |date=20 June 1997 |title=Review of Firearms Control in New Zealand: Report of an Independent Inquiry Commissioned by the Minister of Police |chapter=1.3 Significance of Weak Information Base|url=http://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/review-of-firearms-control-in-new-zealand.pdf |location=Wellington |publisher=GP Print |pages=5–7 |isbn=0-477-01796-7 |author-link=Thomas_Thorp |via=New Zealand Police |access-date=21 January 2019}}</ref> |
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===Firearms licence holders=== |
===Firearms licence holders=== |
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070727071032/http://www.peace.net.nz/cgc_fact_sheet.html Coalition for Gun Control] |
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070727071032/http://www.peace.net.nz/cgc_fact_sheet.html Coalition for Gun Control] |
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*[http://www.gunpolicy.org/ Philip Alpers' Gun Policy website] |
*[http://www.gunpolicy.org/ Philip Alpers' Gun Policy website] |
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*{{cite book |last=Thorp |first=Thomas |date=June 1997 |title=Review of Firearms Control in New Zealand |url=http://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/review-of-firearms-control-in-new-zealand.pdf |location=Wellington |publisher=GP Print |isbn=0-477-01796-7|via=police.govt.nz |author-link= |
*{{cite book |last=Thorp |first=Thomas |date=June 1997 |title=Review of Firearms Control in New Zealand |url=http://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/review-of-firearms-control-in-new-zealand.pdf |location=Wellington |publisher=GP Print |isbn=0-477-01796-7|via=police.govt.nz |author-link=Thomas_Thorp }} |
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