Andrew Dickens: If you want to get tough on crime, you have to get tough on gun ownership

I presume the lead story in the Herald on Sunday was welcomed by police and those behind our stronger gun laws.

An Auckland pensioner and his daughter have been caught for legally buying 13 guns for the Comancheros motorcycle gang.

It's the latest of dozens of discoveries by police of licensed gun owners buying for gangs who cannot legally purchase guns.

Capitalist: Something That Will ‘Actually’ Keep People Safe

Gun ownership in New Zealand has a varied and interesting history which can be broken down into three distinct historical periods. When white folks came to New Zealand they brought lots of guns with them; Parliament enacted laws requiring licences and registration for gun ownership – which were promptly ignored by everybody for sixty years. A period of negligible crime and violence in New Zealand.