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Firearms legislation is provided for in the New Zealand's gun laws: the Arms Act 1983, [9] Arms Amendment Act 1992, [10] and Arms Regulations 1992 [11] and associated regulations. About 250,000 [1] people hold a New Zealand firearms licence. On 10 April 2019 new bills passed placing heavier restrictions on semi automatic firearms.
General-purpose machine gun: 7.62x51mm NATO: L2A1 Australia Canada. light machine gun: 7.62x51mm NATO [9] L4A3 United Kingdom: light machine gun: 7.62x51mm NATO [9] M1919 Browning. L3A3; L3A3E1; L3A4 United States: Medium machine gun.30-06 Springfield: Bren gun British Empire: light machine gun.303 British [9] Charlton Automatic Rifle New ...
They typically included gun emplacements, pill boxes, fire control or observation posts, camouflage strategies, underground bunkers, sometimes with interconnected tunnels, containing magazines, supply and plotting rooms and protected engine rooms supplying power to the gun turrets and searchlights.
Mākara is a locality located at the western edge of Wellington, New Zealand, close to the shore of the Tasman Sea. [3] The suburb is named after the Mākara Stream (mā is Māori for white, kara is a kind of greywacke stone). The Wellington City Council regards the nearby Mākara Beach as a separate suburb.
Wrights Hill Fortress is a counter bombardment coastal artillery battery in the Karori suburb of Wellington, New Zealand.It was built between 1942 and 1944 and is predominantly underground, with numerous tunnels linking the war shelters, gun emplacements, magazines, plotting rooms and engine room – which are, at some points, over 50 feet underground.
The Thorp report, or to give the report its formal title: Review of Firearms Control in New Zealand (ISBN 0-477-01796-7), was a Report of an Independent Inquiry Commissioned by the Minister of Police by former judge Thomas Thorp that was commissioned in July 1996 and reported back to the Minister in June 1997.
The fortifications were built from British designs adapted to New Zealand conditions. These installations typically included gun emplacements, pill boxes, fire command or observation posts , camouflage strategies, underground bunkers , sometimes with interconnected tunnels, containing magazines , supply and plotting rooms and protected engine ...
According to the Small Arms Survey, New Zealand is the 17th highest ranking country in terms of civilian gun ownership with a population of under 5 million and an estimated 1.5 million firearms. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] The buyback ended on 20 December 2019.