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Gun Owners Attack Registration
04/04/2003 07:48 AM
IRN
Gun owners are dismissing the argument that registering individual guns helps prevent the illegal smuggling of firearms.
The suggestion has come in a report on guns in the South Pacific, "Small Arms in the Pacific," which says New Zealand has the largest stockpile of weapons in the region. It also says New Zealand has the most permissive gun control regime.
It says New Zealand and the United States are unique among developed nations, in not registering individual firearms.
Council of Licensed Firearms Owners chairman John Howat says no-one has ever demonstrated how registration helps. He says the US is not a good example, as anyone over 16 without a criminal record can own a pistol. He says by comparison, New Zealand only allows fit and proper people to own guns.