NEW NEW ZEALAND NZ OUTDOORS THE GREEN PARTY OF NEW ZEALAND THE OPPORTUNITES VISION ACT ONE PARTY POLICY AREA CONSERVATIVE FIRST LABOUR PARTY PARTY / NZ NATIONAL PARTY PARTY (TOP) NEW ZEALAND

Agreed. A No confiscation, Not if it’s illegally Over $100 million It was an affront Agree in principle, Compensation Yes compensation Confiscation fundamental right except from held. Not if the law compensation to all responsible subject to specific should be paid is of property by that is currently criminals. All has been broken was paid for legitimate license situations such where the appropriate being compensation must prohibited holders. We will as confiscating previously legal government ignored and be at or above firearms and bring in a peoples illegally obtained item is required to abused market value. parts, under constitution to goods. be surrendered. requires Parliament’s stop governments compensation legislative from excess of authority. power such as the firearms confiscation bill.

Support Administration of Agree. New We’ll consider Administration Establish a Police should Support an No they shouldn’t. Police should independent civilian firearms Zealand First options to of Arms Act and separate authority retain this function independent entity They did not not be authority to ownership & use has received establish related regulations to license firearm unless transferred responsible for manage the administer all must be removed assurances that an an entity to should be owners and to a new administration of information on the responsible aspects of firearm from Police Independent Arms oversee firearms undertaken by a engage with independent and the Arms Act and March 15 gunmans law and policy Authority will be licensing and single entity (not firearm community specialised agency. firearms policy. acquisition of for the writing established which administration in the Police) firearms and administration will remove this 2021. responsible for responsibility from poor checks of of licensing Police. obvious information on him

Policy Support work Remove policy Yes. On the The Minister has Agreed but Agree. Yes. National will Agree of the Firearms decision-making recommendation confidence in the also subject to remove regulation decisions Community from the Police of the Independent Commissioner of stringent public making powers Advisory Arms Police to enforce scrutiny unlike the accordingly. should be Forum and Authority. the law. farcical scrutiny of made by independent last firearms bill. authority Parliament, not delegated to Police

Fair and Support local Vetting & Agreed. Stronger vetting The police are Review vetting Yes. National Yes vetting personnel licensing must be ensures only those already using procedure to raised issues efficient & promote face to consistent across who are fit and draconian policies ensure it is in around proactive face interviews – NZ, local, in- proper can own a to confiscate line with best health notification vetting no square boxes person and highly gun. firearms from practice. and subjectivity process into round holes trained people and vetting around ‘patterns of has now become a behaviour’. farce with licenses being rescinded because someone in the family is taking pills for depression. They need reigning in.

Firearm Collections Repeal New Zealand Bona fide Non-sporting No policy Support clear Yes of historical amendments to First agrees. collectors and firearms on firearm exemption for collections significance should the Arms Act. collections, e.g. (including vintage collections. collectors. be treasured not Restore Collector museums, are & collectors’ should be destroyed endorsement. explicitly provided firearms) should valued as for in legislation be allowed with special licence & important precautions parts of our history

Sport NZ ranks highly Semi-automatics Competitive Parliament Totally support No policy on Support clear Yes on the world stage can be held under Sports Shooting didn’t support private ownership recognising exemption for shooting in sport shooting, a modified “E” disciplines such prohibited weapon of sporting (non- sport shooting sports shooting. participation should category as Mil Service exemptions for military) firearms specifically. should be be allowed endorsement, and 3 Gun sports shooters. by approved requiring should be legal. Olympic and persons. It is part recognised additional security Commonwealth of our parties as valuable & vetting Games are foundation. part of our unaffected. sporting prowess

Recognise Evidence has Semi-automatics New Zealand Prohibited firearms Totally. The The current Support clear Support Yes clearly indicated can be held First sought exemptions are current license firearms rules for exemption for pest exemption but that a wide that firearms are under a modified pest control available for animal for pest control is pest control strike control operations. appropriate an essential pest “E” category exemption & control or pest a farce. The old the right balance. firearm should be range of control tool endorsement, pushed for wider control subject to system worked used firearm use is requiring additional exemptions in conditions. fine.Totally. The security & vetting Arms Legislation current license required for Act for pest control is a farce. The old pest control system worked fine.

Requiring Agreed. It’s a Universal New Zealand Registration stops We use the quote Support National will Support full No it won’t system that has registration of First remains to firearms falling “Outlaw firearms registration of remove the registration registration not achieved the firearms has be convinced into the wrong and you will arm firearms, based legislated register. including some “community safety” failed. Remove that registration hands. Firearms the outlaws”. on the Australian It will not deliver accessories such of firearms goal anywhere in failed E-cat PTP will make the are limited to Already we are model, to the Government’s as magazines the world requirement. community safer, responsible seeing a leap in improve firearms stated will not that is why we licensed owners. criminal arms tracing. objective. make our have delayed offenses. What a its introduction stupid statement community and brought from a desperate forward the post government to any safer implementation say it would make review. communities safer..

The target of ACT will assist Will change Police should Police intelligence Sentencing Act Increase penalties Police Target illegal Yes Police to target Sentencing Act to only target indicates the be amended so for breach of Arms operational use of firearms. Police firearm gangs rather than provide mandatory persons who are firearms used by illegal firearm Act decisions should Introduce Firearm LFOs through law sentences where breaking the law. criminals are most use is treated as be focused on Prohibition Orders operations changes to CPRA firearm used in often stolen from an aggravating public safety. targeted at gangs. should be crime legitimate owners. factor criminals not licenced firearm owners.

Community Clubs and ranges Protect & New Zealand The changes give As a past No policy to Support light Support regulation Yes are a self policing encourage clubs & First tried to club committees Secretary of a NRA change current regulation for clubs of gun clubs sporting clubs community. They ranges, including oppose those the statutory ability club I am appalled regulation of and ranges, not need support not from urban sprawl. regulations but to enforce their at the regulations community the burdensome and ranges burden failed. We are own rules. now in place sporting clubs. regime legislated open to a review that are really by the Government. should be of the cost and just designed to encouraged, safety benefit of make owning and those changes. using firearms and not over- more difficult. We have a number of burdened by various firearm unnecessary club members or officials in our regulation party.

Semi-automatic Repeal ALA 2020, Semi-automatics We supported High-risk firearms Support private Return to pre- Support National Support Disagree. An then write new can be held semi-automatic are prohibited ownership of 2019 system of prohibition on supported the prohibition of Australian shot bans (post Bill replacing under a modified ban with including short sporting (non- endorsements semi-automatics. principle, but semi-automatics others who were AA1983 and all “E” category exemptions for (pistol-length) military) firearms the definitions immigrants, as March 15 its subsequent endorsement, pest control semi-automatic by approved are flawed and unfortunate as that prohibition) amendments requiring additional and legitimate rifles persons. These new exemptions is, law-abiding security & vetting competitive charges are just should be better Kiwis have borne Sporting Shooting. more restrictive constructed. the brunt of the measures to make punishment of firearm ownership that act with the to difficult or confiscation of expensive. If it lawfully obtained is “keeping the semi-automatic community safer firearms then put the cost on the community” Licenced Only payment for Require all The cost of License-holders YES this is just more Any registration Greater impact No they shouldn’t services eg. permit funding from licencing should currently pay restrictiive measures system should on costs is to have to pay firearm application; not licence reflect the cost less than half the to make firearm be made as ensure the only home visit security holders to be of processing the actual cost – Police ownership to dificult accessible as regulations owners checks applied to their application. and taxpayers or expensive. These possible to imposed are administration. subsidised the rest. new charges are encourage take sensible and shouldn’t just more restrictive up. effective. measures to make have to pay for firearm ownership new firearm to difficult or expensive. If it regulations is “keeping the community safer as they don’t then put the cost on benefit them the community”

There should Adequately vetting Enforce vetting & The Arms Act NO Should be updated No. The definitions No we do not the owner not licensing standard would like to get changes are as needed to currently in use agree that there be more types the firearm is the & requirements. back to a situation phased. The final include firearms have already should be more answer. Banning Check & register where rather than provisions – the that present captured some types of firearms of firearms hasn’t worked. the person, not the being banned, registry – are in heightened risk of firearms they banned banned. firearm. certain types three years. dangerous use. shouldn’t have. of firearms are restricted.

This table compares the firearms policies of each of New Zealand’s registered political parties. We collected • Heartland New Zealand Party all publically available policies and then asked each party to fill or update their part in the table. Some parties The following parties have did not respond, some parties have provided online links to their policy, and some provided a quick statement. • • Maori Party Of the parties that have provided alternative sources of their policy: no stated firearms policy • Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party stated: “The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party does not have a policy • New Zealand TEA Party specifically on firearms for us it would be a conscience vote.” • Sustainable New Zealand Party • New Conservative provided a link to their firearms policy in addition to filling out our table. and did not respond to our • National Party provided a document with their firearms policy in addition to filling out our table. • Party • One Party provided a link to their firearms policy. invitation to fill the table: • The New Zealand Democratic Party for Social Credit