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Inquiry into issues relating to the illegal possession of firearms in New Zealand: Report of the Law and Order Committee
Final report of the Law and Order Committee, Fifty-first Parliament (Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi, Chairperson), April 2017, Presented to the House of Representatives, I.8A
Publisher
Firearms
Criminal law
Gun control
New Zealand
Description
The committee met between 16 March 2016 and 5 April 2017 to consider this inquiry and received 102 submissions from the organisations and individuals, heard oral evidence from 20 submitters and received advice from the New Zealand Police.
The report covers these areas:
- Background and overview of firearms control laws in New Zealand
- Sale of firearms and ammunition
- Definition of military-style semi-automatics
- Problems with the current definition of military-style semi-automatics
- Effectiveness of licensing, training, and registering firearms
- Criminal offending with firearms
- Reducing the number of grey firearms
- Importing firearms into New Zealand
- New Zealand First minority view
Twenty recommendations to Goverment are made under the areas listed above.
Publication Details
Copyright:
Crown Copyright 2017
License type:
CC BY
Access Rights Type:
open
Publication place:
Wellington
Post date:
18 Jun 2017
