The new Firearms Registry is coming

Register your firearms and help make New Zealand safer.

New Zealand will have a firearms registry from 24 June 2023. If you’re a firearms licence holder, you’ll be required to provide information about your firearms or arms items from this date.

The Registry will help us make New Zealand safer. It will give licence holders more confidence when buying or selling firearms, as the Registry will let you know if you’re dealing with a current licence holder and if the firearm has been reported stolen.

The Registry is one of the ways we’re strengthening how we manage firearms in New Zealand. With responsible firearms licence holders doing the right thing and filling in the Registry, it will help keep track of legally owned firearms and help prevent their transfer to those who use them for criminal purposes.

You have 5 years until 24 June 2028 to register your firearms. However there are some circumstances where you are required to provide information for the Registry in a shorter time frame. These are referred to in the Arms Amendment Regulations as ‘activating circumstances’. It’s up to you to keep your information up to date. You can find information on these timeframes at: firearmssafetyauthority.govt.nz/registry

Examples of activating circumstances

Selling, hiring, purchasing or receiving a firearm

What needs to be registered

Non-prohibited firearms including Specially Dangerous Airguns (PCPs)

Restricted weapons

Pistols

Registry goes live on 24 June 2023

You can register your firearms or arms items on our website at any time. Just click on MyFirearms, the private and secure portal that houses the Registry. Otherwise our Registry and Services team will be available by phone to help during business hours.

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Importing, exporting or manufacturing a firearm or ammunition

If you’re subject to any compliance or enforcement action under the Arms Act

There will be no charge for registering your firearms.

Details needed to register your firearms

• Type (rifle, shotgun etc)

• Make

• Model

Prohibited firearms and magazines

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• Action

• Calibre/gauge

• If it has a non-detachable magazine (and, if so, its capacity)

• Identifying marking (serial number)

• A photograph of the firearm (if requested)

From the President’s Desk

I would like, firstly, to welcome all our new and returning members to Grey Power Marlborough. I hope you have had the time to go through your discount book and get some deals out of it already. I got a discounted consultation from my optician the other day, so one down and many to go.

Not yet got round to renewing your membership? There is still time.

Thanks to all who took part in our recent survey. We have sent the findings to the Federation. The President was very grateful for the information and will be taking it to the relevant ministers.

We had our quarterly meeting with the Mayor this month. She is very interested in our concerns and opinions about our seniors and is very supportive, as always.

With winter now in full swing, please remember to keep yourself safe from influenza and COVID-19. Unfortunately, some of our frailer seniors have a lower immune system and these viruses can turn into bron