• Home
  • About
    • About Christopher di Armani
    • Disclosure Statement
    • Code of Ethics
    • Privacy Policy
  • Contact
  • Gun Laws 101
  • FPO Violators
  • Store
  • Donate
  • Hire Me

Christopher di Armani.com

In Praise of Individual Rights and Freedoms

  • Top 25
  • Big Brother
    • Access To Information
    • Bureaucratic Incompetence
    • Bureaucrat’s Rule #1
    • Censorship
    • Feeding at the Government Trough
    • Lemonade Freedom
  • Common Sense
    • Expressions of Gratitude
    • Good Samaritans
    • Good Stuff
    • In Memoriam — Remembering our Heros
    • Life
    • Personal Responsibility
    • Politically Correct Madness
  • Courts
    • Abusive Prosecutions
    • Civil Forfeiture
    • Human Rights Tribunals
    • Judicial Corruption
    • Justice Denied
    • Justice System Abuses
    • Police Sentencing Double-Standards
    • Prosecutorial Misconduct
    • SLAPP Lawsuits
  • Crime
    • Abuse of Trust
    • Canadian Mass Murders
    • Firearm Prohibition Orders
    • Human Depravity
    • Immigration Issues
    • Racism
    • Restraining Orders
    • Sexual Predators
    • Violent Criminals
    • Wrongful Convictions
  • Guns
    • Concealed Carry
    • Dial 9-1-1 and Die
    • Firearms Act
    • Fun Gun Stuff
    • Gun Control
    • Gun-Free Zones
    • Gun Politics
    • Gun Registration
    • Negligent Discharges
    • Target Shooting Competitions
  • Islam
    • Canadian Islamic Disgraces
    • Islamic Terrorism
    • Radical Islam
    • Sharia Law
    • The Religion Of Peace
  • Police
    • Abuse of Police Authority
    • Filming Police
    • Great Police Officers
    • Officer Down
    • Police Brutality
    • Police Corruption
    • Police Misconduct
    • RCMP Accountability
    • RCMP Hall of Shame
    • Warrantless Searches
  • Politics
    • Elections
    • Ethics in Politics
    • Political Antics
    • Political Corruption
    • Social Justice
    • Stupid Human Tricks
    • Union Bay Improvement District
  • Rights
    • Charter of Rights and Freedoms
    • Constitutional Violations
    • Freedom of Assembly
    • Freedom of Religion
    • Freedom of Speech
    • Property Rights
    • Privacy Rights
    • Self-Defense
    • Unreasonable Search and Seizure

ACT New Zealand Says Firearm Prohibition Order Bill Needs an Overhaul

Published July 27, 2020 by Christopher di Armani Filed Under: Firearm Prohibition Orders, Gun Control, Gun Politics, Guns, Police


ACT New Zealand promotes free markets, free ideas, personal responsibility and personal accountability – all those principles  progressive, virtue-signalling governments oppose – and while they support the concept philosophically, the current bill needs a lot more work before they can support it further.

“We fully support the intention of going after the gangs and illegal firearms, but this bill needs more work before ACT can support it at future stages,” says Nicole McKee, Firearms Spokesperson for ACT New Zealand.

Their primary concern is the proposed bill does not protect innocent citizens from getting caught up in this new regulatory net.

“There are also questions about the potential culpability of dealers who supply items that don’t require a firearms licence to purchase or own to customers who are the subject of an Firearms Prohibition Order (FPO). There are no details about how a business owner or a licensed firearms owner is to know an FPO has been placed on an individual,” McKee said.

More Virtue Signalling?

The New Zealand government goes to great pains to extol the virtues of Firearm Prohibition Orders without ever addressing the greatest pitfall of these well-intentioned schemes – enforcement.

“Firearms Prohibition Orders would prohibit high-risk people from using, accessing, or being around firearms. Breaching the conditions of a Firearms Prohibition Order would be a criminal offence,” says the public consultation page for the New Zealand Police.

It’s a great sound bite, but as the epic failure that is Canada’s Firearm Prohibition Order system shows, pieces of paper don’t stop people with bad intentions from getting their hands on guns illegally.

Canada’s mountain of evidence against using this exact system notwithstanding, on February 13, 2020, the New Zealand government introduced a bill to create a Firearms Prohibition Order regime to “prevent high-risk people from having access to firearms.”

Arms (Firearms Prohibition Orders) Amendment Bill (No 2):

provides strong new powers for Police to make sure the most dangerous gang members don’t have firearms, while not putting unnecessary restrictions on legal gun owners. This Bill puts in place new Firearms Prohibition Orders (FPOs) which will apply to the toughest gang members with serious offending histories. Gang members won’t be able to hold firearms licences.

FPOs provide new powers for Police to search the persons, vehicles, and premises of specified serious and violent gang members for firearms at any time.

The bill also allows police to refuse a firearm licence based on whether, “in the opinion of a commissioned officer of Police”

  • a person is a member of a gang,
  • is not a fit and proper person to be in possession of a firearm.

This builds on the existing foundation for police discretion to issue a firearm licence spelled out in New Zealand’s Arms Act 1983, which states:

24 Issue of firearms licence

A firearms licence shall not be issued to a person if, in the opinion of a commissioned officer of Police, access to any firearm or airgun in the possession of that person is reasonably likely to be obtained by any person—

(a) whose application for a firearms licence or for a permit under section 7 of the Arms Act 1958, or for a certificate of registration under section 9 of the Arms Act 1958 has been refused on the ground that he is not a fit and proper person to be in possession of a firearm or airgun; or

(b) whose certificate of registration as the owner of a firearm has been revoked under section 10 of the Arms Act 1958 on the ground that he is not a fit and proper person to be in possession of a firearm; or

(c) whose firearms licence has been revoked on the ground that he is not a fit and proper person to be in possession of a firearm or airgun; or

(d) who, in the opinion of a commissioned officer of Police, is not a fit and proper person to be in possession of a firearm or airgun.

Canada’s Failed Firearm Prohibition Order System

In Canada, over 1,110 individuals subject to a Firearms Prohibition Order are arrested every year for violating those orders.

It’s easy to understand why.

  • No police agency in Canada tracks individuals with Firearm Prohibition Orders registered against them.
  • There is no legal requirement for police to track individuals with Firearm Prohibition Orders registered against them or routinely check on them to ensure compliance.
  • There is no legal requirement for individuals with Firearm Prohibition Orders to notify police when they move to a new residence. Police have no idea where these people are.

People with a history of violent offences are a proven danger to public safety, yet these are the people our government refuses to check on or track.

New Zealand’s proposed system is modeled on Canada’s failed Firearm Prohibition Order scheme. If implemented, it will fail for the same reasons Canada’s system continues to fail year after year.

Until and unless any prohibition scheme is backed by an effective system for tracking and checking on violent offenders to ensure they comply with their Firearm Prohibition Orders, all the pieces of paper in the world will not prevent violent criminals, gang members or anyone else from illegally obtaining as many guns as they want.

Author

  • Christopher di Armani
    Christopher di Armani

    Christopher di Armani is a freedom-loving Amazon bestselling author and current events commentator from Lytton, BC, Canada, who strives to awaken the passion for liberty inside every human being.

Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription.

Tags: ACT New Zealand, Arms Act 1983, firearm prohibition order, Firearms Prohibition Order regime, Firearms Spokesperson for ACT New Zealand, New Zealand, Nicole McKee, repeat offenders, violent criminals, violent offenders

Did you find value in this article?

If you found this article useful or it contained valuable information and you want to thank me, the best way is to buy me a coffee or two.

1. Send an Interac eTransfer to author @ christopherdiarmani.net (remove spaces)

2. Send via PayPal using this link: https://www.paypal.me/ThatLibertyGuy

3. Use your credit card in my online store to support me with a one-time donation, a monthly recurring donation, or an annual donation. See these links for all the details about the thank-you gifts I offer my supporters.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Subscribe to my commentaries

Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription.

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Latest Tweets

Follow @ThatLibertyGuy

Christopher di Armani 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
@ThatLibertyGuy

  • New comment: Paul Rogan Passes: The End of an Era christopherdiarmani.com/18908/common-s…
    about 1 day ago
    Reply Retweet Favorite
  • To restore common sense to our nation, this is the path. The political left works around the clock and around the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
    about 1 day ago
    Reply Retweet Favorite
  • New comment: Canadian Gun Laws: A Primer for People Who Don’t Know Much About Gun Laws christopherdiarmani.com/15213/guns/can…
    about 3 weeks ago
    Reply Retweet Favorite
  • New comment: Blake Harvey’s Murder Proves We Don’t Value Children’s Lives christopherdiarmani.com/17398/police/g…
    about 3 weeks ago
    Reply Retweet Favorite
  • New comment: All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing christopherdiarmani.com/8275/human-rig…
    about 3 weeks ago
    Reply Retweet Favorite

Most Popular This Week

  • All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing
  • How did Live-Streaming Rape Become a ‘Thing’?
  • Yvon Mercier: From RCMP Depot Trainer to Double-Murderer
  • Dale Merle Nelson’s 1970 Murder Spree in Creston, British Columbia
  • Why the Flood of Firearm Registration Certificates in My Mailbox?
  • OPP Sergeant Jamie Gillespie Pleads Guilty to attempting to intercept private communications
  • No Right to Bear Arms in Canada? You might want to re-check your history.

Most Popular This Month

  • All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing
  • How did Live-Streaming Rape Become a ‘Thing’?
  • Dale Merle Nelson’s 1970 Murder Spree in Creston, British Columbia
  • Yvon Mercier: From RCMP Depot Trainer to Double-Murderer
  • RCMP Sergeant Douglas Smith appeals conditional discharge for illegal handgun
  • Florida Police arrest a 12-year-old for farting. Have they lost their minds?
  • Why the Flood of Firearm Registration Certificates in My Mailbox?

© 2004–2023 ChristopherDiArmani.com | All Rights Reserved

Close

Buy me a cup of coffee

A ridiculous amount of coffee was consumed in the process of writing these articles. If you enjoy my work, please buy me a coffee or two to keep me going!