Gun Policy News
Powerful Airguns Now Only Legal for Licensed New Zealand Gun Owners
15 October 2010
New Zealand Press Association
Police have welcomed a law change which means people must have a firearms license to own the type of air rifle used to murder police undercover officer Sergeant Don Wilkinson.
The law change comes after the Government moved to reclassify pre-charged pneumatic (PCP) air rifles after they were used in the Auckland murders of Mr Wilkinson in 2008 and Keith Kahi in July this year.
Police national coordinator of firearms control, Inspector Joe Green said the law change... (GunPolicy.org)