Kind of reloading related but, Kiwi's take note!

[McHaggis]

Way back on the 25th of August I placed an order with Sinclair International for a few reloading items, including a 7 slot picatinny rail. They got it ready and sent it off to New Zealand and on the 3rd of September it arrived. NZ Customs grab it because the description of the rail included AR15/M16. After 20+ emails, 2 trips to the police station to see the arms officer, several phone calls, forms completed, emailed then posted away the package was finally released on the 18th of October.
OK I thought, it should be here soon.

Not so. More emails and finally the Arms Officer at customs rang the manager of the NZ Post Mail Centre and told them it had been released for 11 days so they can now please deliver it. They told me 3 days to Invercargill but they must have got the message as it took less than 24 hours to finally get to me, 2 months and 3 days after it was sent!

So........... If any Kiwi's are considering getting anything in from overseas that might be considered a firearm part then you need to have a permit before you order it and a copy has to be sent to the international supplier and the other copy to Customs.

What a bloody nightmare!

 

[NZ_Noddy]

You should be pleased you got it at all seeing as NZ Post in their great woke wisdom have decided that
they will not handle any firearms or related items

 

[McHaggis]

Yes they told me that and I had to argue my case. It seems the Arms Officer finally encouraged them to ship it. And at the end of the day it was only a picatinny rail!
It's beginning to look like we are truly f****d.

 

[Homerange]

Thanks for the heads up McHaggis !

Yep NZ gubbermint are a bunch of twits and most of the public wouldn't even know our greatest ever international sporting medal winner was a shooter !
Points for guessing who that is !

 

[cheyenne01]

I know where your coming from
Canada isn’t much better to have stuff shipped out of the US to here.
I have a Bat action waiting in Washington to get exported to Canada. It’s been sitting waiting on the paperwork since August 12.
And now they changed the rules. I will be lucky if I see it by Christmas time.
Crazy how complicated this has all become.

 

[Fotheringill]

I feel your pain. My country is headed in the same direction.

 

[WEL]

This sucks but at the end of the day ya’ll allowed this to happen. Free people need to decide how much of their freedom they are wiling to sacrifice. At some point you have to make a stand.

 

[INShooter]

This may be an old thread but every US gun owner should read it twice. This is what is coming.

 

[miningshawn]

This sucks but at the end of the day ya’ll allowed this to happen. Free people need to decide how much of their freedom they are wiling to sacrifice. At some point you have to make a stand.

I couldn't agree more. I work with a couple of New Zealanders. They both "love to hunt", have bought more than a few firearms since relocating to Alaska, and both complain bitterly about the loss of firearms rights.

But...............

They also both believe that AR-15's and semi-automatic pistols are evil, unnecessary, and dangerous. I threw a few words in, but realized that it was a conversation I didn't want to be involved in. You can't educate the passionately uneducated - they don't want to be. I just hope that their visas expire and they can go back to the government that they voted in, instead of naturalizing and voting for MY government.

 

[MagnumManiac]

Try Orstraya. (Australia)
The post here have only recently allowed firearms and parts to enter their vehicles. I just use couriers, easier and no hassles.
Getting parts here is like committing an offence.

Cheers.

 

[MFG_BOP]

I couldn't agree more. I work with a couple of New Zealanders. They both "love to hunt", have bought more than a few firearms since relocating to Alaska, and both complain bitterly about the loss of firearms rights.

But...............

They also both believe that AR-15's and semi-automatic pistols are evil, unnecessary, and dangerous. I threw a few words in, but realized that it was a conversation I didn't want to be involved in. You can't educate the passionately uneducated - they don't want to be. I just hope that their visas expire and they can go back to the government that they voted in, instead of naturalizing and voting for MY government.

hahahahaha excellent!!!! I live in NZ (not born here) and know lots of people like that! Too many lefties here!