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The New Zealand Council of Licensed Firearms Owners is seeking expressions of interest from members who would be willing to form a strategy committee to advise the Council on such issues as public relations, media, and strategic plans etc, which would provide more depth to the Council. If you feel as though this is you or you know someone who may fit the bill CVs are invited to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it fax: (04) 801 7368 or to PO Box 24020, Wellington, New Zealand no later than January 15 2012.

New Zealand Deerstalkers' Association Inc

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PO Box 6514, Marion Square, Wellington 6141

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Letter from Richard Prosser MP to the NZ Herald in response to last week's article.

Your claim that:

"The outcome is that New Zealand and the United States are virtually alone among Western nations in not requiring the registration of firearms."

Is incorrect and misleading. Of the 79 nations which responded to the 1999 United Nations Small Arms Survey, only three, Japan, Kenya, and Guinea-Bissau, maintain comprehensive nationwide computerised firearms registers including serial numbers.

The rest have a mix of local and regional registers, many only paper-based, held by a variety of civilian and military authorities, and which are neither complete nor universally available to all Governmental agencies. Many jurisdictions record only the number and type of guns held, and not the registration numbers.

New Zealand abandoned universal firearms registration in 1983 because it was costly and ineffective. Registration is still required for handguns and military-style semi-automatics, as well as other restricted categories.

Existing New Zealand firearms law is regarded widely as being the best in the world, despite ill-informed scaremongering on the part of the anti-gun lobby.

Richard Prosser MP
New Zealand First Police Spokesman

SSANZ Comment - Good factual reply to another stupid article