NZ Cops: No Registration Makes Rounding Up Guns Difficult

Anti-gunners are working to create registrations and licensing schemes throughout this country. While a federal registration is unlikely any time soon, they are happening at the state level. Worse than that, the numbers may be slowly creeping up.

However, opponents of registration note that the only thing such laws are good for is gun confiscation. You can’t take up guns from law-abiding folks if you don’t know where they are, now can you?

Anti-gun voices tend to call that paranoia.

Based on what we hear out of New Zealand, though, it sounds more like precognition.

Chris Cahill, with the country’s Police Association, said it’s not clear if this year’s budgeted funding for the buy-back would be adequate because New Zealand (like America) does not have an official gun registry.

“We really have no idea how many of these firearms are out there in New Zealand,” Cahill told the Herald. “Which really points to how bad our firearms legislation has been, that we have let this get out of control.”