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1. Police make arrest following firearms discovery

   ... Police have located an array of firearms while carrying out a search warrant for a separate incident. On ... over that incident, and we have charged him with various firearms and drugs offences,” he says. “As part of our enquiries, ...

   jwmf15 - 15/07/2024 - 12:15pm

2. Napier man charged after prohibited firearms found in children’s bedrooms

   ... Images(s) Five prohibited firearms are out of circulation after Police seized them while executing a search warrant at the home of a firearms licence holder in Napier. Detective Senior Sergeant James Keene ...

   ebld47 - 10/07/2025 - 11:53am

3. First anniversary for New Zealand’s Firearms Registry

   The Firearms Registry was launched one year ago today to help improve firearms oversight and safety by providing a record of all lawfully held firearms. Te Tari Pūreke - Firearms Safety Authority Executive Director, ...

   ebld47 - 24/06/2024 - 11:15am

4. Southern gun owners topping firearms registration

   South Island firearms owners, especially those from the Southern and Canterbury Police ... leading the way in the new Firearm Registry. Licenced firearms owners across the country have responded well to the Registry, with it ... licence holders in New Zealand. Te Tari Pūreke - Firearms Safety Authority Executive Director, Angela Brazier, says she’d like ...

   jtenk9 - 15/01/2024 - 11:54am

5. Police praise firearms owners’ response to the buy-back

   NZ Police today thanked Kiwi firearms owners for doing the right thing as it announced provisional figures for firearms handed in during the six month prohibited firearms buy-back and amnesty.  “As of midnight, 20 December 2019, ...

   YANX45 - 21/12/2019 - 1:10pm

6. Firearms Registry to stop criminals and gangs getting guns

   With law-abiding firearms licence holders filling in the new digital Firearms Registry, it will make it much harder for gangs and criminals to ... says Police. Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says the Firearms Registry launched today [Sat 24 June], will over time create a ...

   rpel50 - 29/06/2023 - 12:05pm

7. Former firearms licence holder held accountable for diverting guns

   A former firearms licence holder who supplied a significant number of firearms to the black market has been held accountable for his offending in ... years, seven months imprisonment on ten charges involving firearms, class A drugs, and explosives. He pleaded guilty to charges ...

   rpel50 - 10/12/2024 - 4:25pm

8. Two arrested, firearms and meth seized during search warrants in Manurewa (+ photos)

   ... Police have arrested two men and seized methamphetamine, firearms and cash during search warrants today. A number of properties in ... and cash were recovered from the properties. Four firearms and ammunition were also recovered as a result of today’s operation. ...

   nbft70 - 10/02/2021 - 4:20pm

9. Firearms Registry cracks 400,000th firearm

   More than a third of all firearms licence holders have registered their firearms, with New Zealand’s Firearms Registry recording its 400,000th gun now linked to an individual ...

   jtenk9 - 07/05/2025 - 7:45am

10. Operation Tauwhiro sees 64 firearms seized in Northland, 42 arrested

    ... launched by Police earlier this year aiming to prevent firearms getting in the hands of criminals is seeing great results in Northland, with dozens of unlawful firearms seized. Operation Tauwhiro was rolled out in February to target ...

    nbft70 - 03/06/2021 - 4:45pm