Harassment/intimidation of New Zealand gun owners spotlight: Family terrorized over pro-gun writing and a .22 lever rifle.

[Blue Sky Country]

My House Was Raided Over A .22LR Lever Action Rifle.

"Code enforcement"? Bullshit. That was done to intimidate this man and his family for pro-gun articles that he had written on social media exposing the folly of the current NZ administration and it's openly exclaimed communist leader. Patriots here, take a careful look at what is happening over there. Fudds, do you REALLY think that your 'grandaddy's thirty-thirty' is safe from confiscation? Does anyone still think that freedom of speech and expression is safe without firepower to back it up? Sobering lessons are to be learned here.

My House Was Raided Over A .22LR Lever Action Rifle

On Thursday evening, I was just finishing up dinner with my two oldest kids. My wife was feeling unwell and feeding our four-week old baby in bed. I had just gotten the icecream out for the kids when the doorbell rang.

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On Thursday evening, I was just finishing up dinner with my two oldest kids. My wife was feeling unwell and feeding our four-week old baby in bed. I had just gotten the icecream out for the kids when the doorbell rang.

I opened the door to see a number of police officers outside. They served me with a search warrant under Section 6 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012. Half a dozen armed police officers swarmed in the front door (holstered sidearms only) as several more ran around the sides of the house. They later called for more backup as the house was larger than your average state-house drug lab. I got the impression that they'd never had to raid a middle-class suburban house like mine before. Everyone on the property was detained, read their rights, and questioned separately. I opted to call a lawyer who advised me to refuse to answer any questions.

The warrant claimed they had reason to believe I was in possession of a prohibited magazine fitted to a ".22RL lever action rifle. Blued metal, brown wooden stock." The officer told me I had posted about it online, which I had—in my public written submission against the Firearms Amendment Act passed last year. That submission was shared on several blogs and social media. I had used the firearm as an example to prove the legislation was not targeting "military style assault weapons" as the media, prime minister, and her cabinet repeated ad nauseum. The vast majority of firearms affected by the legislation were just like mine.



I thought nothing more of my little example to the select committee. It was no longer in my possession when the police raided my house. They departed empty-handed after turning the place inside out for ninety minutes, and left me with my firearms and a visibly shaken wife who broke down in tears. Thankfully, the kids didn't quite get what was going on—but I realised after that they had gone to bed without icecream.

I've been vocal about the amnesty being a disaster, and the police were rather open about the failure of the whole process. Maybe if they stopped raiding innocent people's houses there might have been some more good will? They implied that they'd keep having to raid the houses of people I knew until the firearm turned up. This is for an A-Category firearm, which I have no reason to believe is fitted with a prohibited magazine! Are these the kind of intimidation tactics now the norm in New Zealand? Are we going to accept this in a first-world democracy?

This is for a lever-action .22LR that's designed to hit paper or be used to hunt bunnies. What happened to going after the "weapons designed to kill people" as the police minister Stuart Nash has claimed?

The implications of this are rather stunning. I took the photo and publicised the details about this firearm as part of the select committee process. This good-faith evidence was used by the police as a justification for their raid. Do we now live in a country where public evidence given to a select committee will be used against you to suit the political purposes of the police?

Anyone who's publicly talked about or posted a picture of their grandfather's little .22LR pump/lever action can get raided, as these rifles all had 10+ capacity prior to the draconian new rules. Admitting you had one a year ago is reason enough to warrant a raid on your property today.

I suppose it's no coincidence that I pointed out in an article last month just how bad the numbers are when it comes to compliance. When I said that New Zealand gun owners aren't "rolling over for anybody", this is not quite what I had in mind—again, why raid the guy publicly pointing out the truth?

I've been vocal about my opposition to many of this government's policies. I live a very conservative life and hold traditional conservative views which I am public about. I've never promoted non-compliance and was rather shocked by how low the numbers really were. This left me wondering: was this a politically motivated action by someone high-up in the bureaucracy ordered to make examples?
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Our brothers in New Zealand have missed one chance to truly strike fear into the hearts of their overlords and permanently remove some resources from their pool of enforcers. The pushing and harassment will only continue, and escalate, as long as the powers would be are confident that they will not be made to pay for their infractions...

 

[Son of Dorn]

Just as I've said, lever-action cowboy guns and .22 plinkers will be outlawed in places like VA by intentionally-vague wording just as their big brothers would be.

 

[Rocketvapor]

Why didn't he just tell them " I lost it in a boating accident ".
They would have just packed up and left.

 

[DarnYankeeUSMC]

Citizens turned into fellons with the stroke of a pen.
Be the best fellons you can be. Take names of tyrants that enact and those that enforce.

 

[lonegunman762x51]

Socialist hate and intolerance is rampant the world over. Democrats in this country and their communist brothers the world over are all the same. They have an undying hatred of freedom and disdain for free expression or thought. If you want to be sent to a gulag or concentration camp in the not to distant future, express a contrary opinion to your Demoncrat overlords.

The above article proves a point I have been making since I was in college. That point is that the police do not give a crap about your rights, freedoms or opinions. If they passed a law tomorrow to round up Jews in America ( always on the minds of the anti-Semitic socialists) 98% of all police departments would be out rounding them up the day after. Same with gun owners, white people or whatever group earns the hate of leftists.

The police, 99.9% of the time, do not care in the least about right or wrong. They care about two things. 1. They want to subjugate the masses and be in-charge. 2. They want to apply laws to you that they themselves ignore on a regular basis because most of them firmly believe they are above the law or they have a pass because they "enforce" the law.

I am a supporter of law enforcement because society needs order and someone must enforce order on the millions of miscreants who will do anything other than work gainful employment to get ahead. But, I know first hand what 99% of cops are capable of. They will lie, cheat, steal, commit perjury, plant evidence, mislead, omit and betray any confidence to prove themselves right in a court of law. I had a very good buddy who was in the 1% of cops, he swore he would never let another cop in his house without a warrant. His wife and kids knew to never let one in or to even answer questions on any subject from his co-workers. The more crime stories I follow, the more I tend to agree with his theory.

 

[Mwalex]

Sadly this article has no meaning to the average hunter. Since they don’t own those evil “black rifles” they think they are safe.

We all know what is headed our way if something does not change.

 

[Bender]

This is our future.

But dumb fudds that give money to the NRA are arrogant enough to think it won’t happen here.

 

[jerryrva]

New Zealand should read up on what happened to the British after they passed the Firearms Act of 1937. When Germany became a threat, they had no guns for homeland defense.

Groups like The American Committee for the Defense of British Homes sent donated firearms that the UK Home Guard distributed to citizens to protect themselves in the face of German invasion.

 

[GUN NUT in IA]

New Zealand should read up on what happened to the British after they passed the Firearms Act of 1937. When Germany became a threat, they had no guns for homeland defense.

Groups like The American Committee for the Defense of British Homes sent donated firearms that the UK Home Guard distributed to citizens to protect themselves in the face of German invasion.

It would be foolish to loan your weapon (to an individual who gave theirs up)

- when you might need it for yourself.

 

[Aries256]

Gun grabbers are among the worst of actual evils in this world. Vile scum with no honor, no dignity, no brains. Those that enact any gun control laws, those that enforce said laws, and those that defend said laws are among the lowest piles of shit to ever infect this world, them and pedos.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Gun grabbers are among the worst of actual evils in this world. Vile scum with no honor, no dignity, no brains. Those that enact any gun control laws, those that enforce said laws, and those that defend said laws are among the lowest piles of shit to ever infect this world, them and pedos.

Just in the last two months alone, one gun grabber murdered her kids, then herself. Another one killed his wife and his wife's cat and tried to troll the NRA. And another one may be looking at child pornography charges. Just a span of 40 days...

 

[Soulezoo]

Buy (or load) more ammo.

Good advice then, good advice now

 

[Liberator52]

Groups like The American Committee for the Defense of British Homes sent donated firearms that the UK Home Guard distributed to citizens to protect themselves in the face of German invasion.

UK then destroyed those weapons after the war. They look down their noses at us unkempt colonials still. Next time, I vote that they are on their own.

 

[Rthur]

The word citizen should be removed from their government's vocabulary.

R

 

[Aries256]

The word citizen should be removed from their government's vocabulary.

R

They’re subjects

 

[GUN NUT in IA]

UK then destroyed those weapons after the war. They look down their noses at us unkempt colonials still. Next time, I vote that they are on their own.

I am pretty sure I won't get a "vote" the next time they need to borrow some weapons, but I can guarantee they will have to send someone to come and pick them up - cuz I most certainly am not going to volunteer to send them mine.

 

[nn8734]

Whose regime should be changed first - Iran’s or New Zealand’s?

hint: not IRAN

 

[Aries256]

Whose regime should be changed first - Iran’s or New Zealand’s?

hint: not IRAN

Both, and with the overthrow of libtards here.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Whose regime should be changed first - Iran’s or New Zealand’s?

hint: not IRAN

Iran first. Both Iran and Venezuela. By the common people. With overwhelming violence. And ending up with the rulers dragged out into the streets and publicly sodomized with rifle barrels before being hacked to pieces with machetes...

If that does not send a tidal wave of fear through the hearts of leftists in the west and trigger the most primal instincts of self preservation, then they are next level retarded. Successful and violent peoples' uprisings in one of these current global hotspots will also lay out a blueprint for Patriots here on how to deal with parasites when the situation arises.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

It would be foolish to loan your weapon (to an individual who gave theirs up)

- when you might need it for yourself.

Give 'em a knife... They have to prove that they have earned the right to carry a gun again. When SHTF there will be plenty of guns in the hands of state enforcers. Use your brains and the knife to get you a rifle or pistol of your own. That is how members have been inducted into eastern European partisan groups during WWII. We ain't gonna give the average Ivan from the street a Mauser or a Schmeisser. Take this knife and come back with one in the next 4 hours, then you will be welcome around our campfire...

 

[deersniper]

Citizens turned into fellons with the stroke of a pen.
Be the best fellons you can be. Take names of tyrants that enact and those that enforce.

Names and addresses.

They probably haven’t outlawed gas and matches yet.

 

[Vodoun daVinci]

Both, and with the overthrow of libtards the Government here.

FIFY.

VooDoo

 

[deersniper]

FIFY.

VooDoo

Yes but instead of “overthrow the government “. I prefer “restoration of the constitution. “. We would have about 1% of our current problems if we actually followed the constitution. Having to own property and be male would have delayed by 100s of Years most of the current mess we face.