The firearm thread

[jafagsx250]

Sadly it's true.

And you're also not allowed any parts of and AR, AK etc, not even the sights.

Not quite. If they are on a prohibited firearm then they are prohibited.

If they are on a non prohibited firearm then they are fine.

The issue lies in that due to the flat receiver and the stock being in line with the bore you can not use the sights or scope mounts on other rifles due to parallax.

[Swoop]

... lists semi auto 22s with mags holding more than five rounds as being banned. We?re assuming a brain fart at head office.

Correct. 10rnds is still legal.



Also, good to see that The NZ Deerstalkers have finally woken up to this nonsense and have changed their opinion on the new laws.

[jasonu]

Lever action firearms? I didn?t see that but I guess if the mag holds more than ten rounds?

I do note that the summary of the new laws we received at the club lists semi auto 22s with mags holding more than five rounds as being banned. We?re assuming a brain fart at head office.

It'll be slingshots and bad language next.

[jasonu]

Also, good to see that The NZ Deerstalkers have finally woken up to this nonsense and have changed their opinion on the new laws.

Got a link to that?

[Pound]

Well it just keeps getting better.....

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...gun-law-reform

[RDJ]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...gun-law-reform.... yes, I smell panic.

Shafting mainstream citizens on price for guns and accessories, while ignoring the fact only a few hundred guns have been handed in countrywide; while keeping piling on with homilies from police to 'do the right thing' when the police are not at all clean-handed and are actually writing the gun-theft laws. That's a huge, unprecedented and irreversible jump from enforcing laws...

Then trying to keep hiding the woeful failures of Immigration and Police in inviting and vetting - thereby arming - this evil focker Tarrant, when Her Highness was actually involved in making vetting less safe before the atrocity.

Also, no timing given for payment after guns surrendered; generally in a consenting sale / sales by private individuals, one does not hand over the asset without a schedule of payment, hey Cinders? Basically, GunGrab is as much hyped and as little a success as Kiwibuild.

Last but not least - when even the NZDA have their Niemoller moment, it's possible the COL thieves are facing an increasingly united opposition at voter level while flailing about policy-wise. 200,000 gun owners - or even half that number - voting for Act or simply not voting for the useless COL will leave a mark on party majorities.

And, now can't buy the annoyed cits off by Kiwibuild success, cannabis and euthanasia; the Kiwibuild failure is abjectly pathetic and cannabis and euthanasia expectations are already baked. Plus the more the likes of Genter and Golly G and Shawful open their cakeholes to lie to and despise voters, the more voters feel lied to and despised... who'd have thunk it.

[Swoop]

Got a link to that?

NZ Guns magazine.



I note that the next round of bullshit lawmaking is going against specific calibres of rifles. Just to prove that politicians have no clue what they are on about.

[pritch]

I note that the next round of bullshit lawmaking is going against specific calibres of rifles. Just to prove that politicians have no clue what they are on about.

There was some objection to "military calibres".

That gets complicated, military calibres tend to be very popular as, pre the 22 centerfires and 7.62x39, they were good hunting cartridges. Calibres like 303, 30.06, 7.62x59R 7x57, 8x57, 6.5x55 and 7.62x51 (308) were all good deer hunting cartridges and have taken a lot of game. Most are still deservedly popular.

Who knows what the politicians who considered this were thinking?

[Swoop]

Who knows what the politicians who considered this were thinking?

A: Very little.
Common Sense has left the building on this fiasco.

[jasonu]

A: Very little.
Common Sense has left the building on this fiasco.

Yep it is a total knee jerk reaction performed by a bunch of total jerk offs.

[oldrider]

Have we got any air rifle experts on this forum? -

[jasonu]

Have we got any air rifle experts on this forum? -

Husaberk is an expert on pretty much everything known to man...

[pritch]

Have we got any air rifle experts on this forum? -

This is a firearm forum. An expert might say that an air rifle is not a firearm, and he would be right.

Be brave, ask your question and see what happens.

[oldrider]

This is a firearm forum. An expert might say that an air rifle is not a firearm, and he would be right.

Be brave, ask your question and see what happens.

I have been brave and asked my question and you have answered = 10/10 so far.

Take a little ride back out to the poll and you will see that there is a column for "air rifles" -

Her in doors is packing a poo with the local blackbird population and she wants to kill them all for fucking with her garden. -

After much discussion - the birds and I lost - so off we went and bought a slug gun. (177) Crosman "Slayer" no less. (big as she can handle)

I was commissioned to sight it in! (have experience with such activities - back in the day!)

Set up a little range at around 15yds in the back yard - (all sheltered and safe etc) - could not for the life of me get a pattern going -(on the target) but spraying everywhere!

Made up a substantial little cradle went indoors in the shed - 6m range - still no real pattern - went and bought the best quality slugs I could find 16c each.

Improvement but still too wild to adjust the scope by.

Inspected the gun all over and found that the barrel reset was deforming the slug tails on closing.

Went back to the shop and asked if I could look at the other two same models - both had cleaner countersunk entries to the barrel (chamber?) breach.

Brought it back in to the shop and showed them - so they replaced the gun.

Every slug cuts the others at 6m and with only 1 adjustment cuts out the bulls-eye now consistently! - I have hung the targets on the fence with attention Blackbirds!

If nobody has to die and her indoors is a happy little garden gnome again - I will be very satisfied with our purchase! - -(it has been fun!)

[pritch]

I have been brave and asked my question and you have answered = 10/10 so far.

Take a little ride back out to the poll and you will see that there is a column for "air rifles" -

Her in doors is packing a poo with the local blackbird population and she wants to kill them all for fucking with her garden. -

After much discussion - the birds and I lost - so off we went and bought a slug gun. (177) Crosman "Slayer" no less. (big as she can handle)

I was commissioned to sight it in! (have experience with such activities - back in the day!)

Set up a little range at around 15yds in the back yard - (all sheltered and safe etc) - could not for the life of me get a pattern going -(on the target) but spraying everywhere!

Made up a substantial little cradle went indoors in the shed - 6m range - still no real pattern - went and bought the best quality slugs I could find 16c each.

Improvement but still too wild to adjust the scope by.

Inspected the gun all over and found that the barrel reset was deforming the slug tails on closing.

Went back to the shop and asked if I could look at the other two same models - both had cleaner countersunk entries to the barrel (chamber?) breach.

Brought it back in to the shop and showed them - so they replaced the gun.

Every slug cuts the others at 6m and with only 1 adjustment cuts out the bulls-eye now consistently! - I have hung the targets on the fence with attention Blackbirds!

If nobody has to die and her indoors is a happy little garden gnome again - I will be very satisfied with our purchase! - -(it has been fun!)

It's cool that you solved the problem. I was lusting after a seriously expensive air rifle but the company went bung and I haven't sorted a new lust object as yet.