Posted on 07/18/2019 10:24:43 AM PDT by marktwain
New Zealand attempted controls on firearms ownership from 1845 to 1885. It was not very effective. From 1885 to 1912, the arms control law was generally a dead letter. From 1912 to 1945 arms control was again attempted, primarily as a means of preventing revolution. From 1945 to 1965, there was again a peaceful enjoyment of firearms with few controls in New Zealand. There were registration controls on the books, but they proved ineffective. Because of increasing crime rates, from the middle 1960's to 1983, the New Zealand police struggled with the ineffective registration system. The information was obtained from the 1997 study of its gun control history.
The study found that seminal work done by Inspector Colin Greenwood in the first-ever academic study of the effect of gun control in England and Wales, published by Cambridge University, was well received in New Zealand in 1982.
New Zealand abandoned firearms registration for most guns in 1983, after police found gun registration was expensive to administer and ineffective in solving crimes. From wikipedia:
An internal police report in 1982 criticised the proposals, saying there was no evidence that registration of guns helped to solve crimes, and that registration would use time and money better spent on other police work. This policy was adopted by the government in the 1983 Act.
A summation of the 1982 report can be found at rkba.org.
In 1988 Josh Sugarman of the Violence Policy Center advocated pushing for gun control of semi-automatic rifles, as the push for control of handguns had
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They don't have it.
Gun control is always intended to prevent revolution!
And why we never should.
Back when all this confiscation chatter started up....this problem was uttered a few times. But the top folks with authority just skip over it, and go to a pretending stage that folks will cooperate or ‘else’.
There might be a couple hundred around the island who played into this. But I suspect by the beginning of 2020...95-percent of affected guns will still be in the arms of owners.
Jacinda Ardern will be History before they get their List
Exactly why gun registration should not happen.
Bumper Sticker from my youth, First Registration, then Confiscation.
As true 60 Years ago as it is today.
Perhaps in part.
My investigations of the extreme gun control instituted in Australia, in 1997, was that it was virtue signaling by a bunch people afflicted with hoplophobia.
Australian politicians, Media, and academics, took out their collective angst about guns against rural Australians.
Pushed by globalist gurus such as Soros.
Nice pic. Where’s her burka?
Her burka is in the closet.
“...Nice pic. Where’s her burka?...”
I didn’t think guys wore burkas.
Isn’t Chuck Schumer on tape referring to background checks as registration?
I won’t go to N.J. or Illinois due to their stoopid anti gun crap/
New Zealand? Not ever going to get my tourista dollars.
The sticker I remember from my youth was “Register Communists, Not Guns.”
Still works today.
Two more...
The only good Commie is a dead Commie.
Kill a Commie for your Mommy.
First Registration, then Confiscation, then Extermination.
Gun Control is "PEOPLE CONTROL"!
I have no idea.
Hard to believe Kiwis will not give up their rights just because the government said to. I can’t imagine anyone outside of Australia who would do so.
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