Dear Mr Hanna

Your request below dated 20 April 2017 is being dealt with pursuant to the
Official Information Act 1982.

 

Ministerial Services , Police National Headquarters, 180 Molesworth
Street, Wellington, [1]www.police.govt.nz

 

 

I am interested in the details of current New Zealand firearms licences.

My understanding of the current system, based on the Standard New Zealand
firearms licence page on the NZ Police website[1], is that members of the
New Zealand public must typically hold a firearms licence before they can
own firearms or use them unsupervised. Licences must also have a certain
level of endorsement, which is applied for separately, before the licence
holder can own certain types of firearms.

Although the purchase of firearms via mail order requires approval by the
police, there is no register of firearms owned by members of the New
Zealand public.

If any of this is incorrect, I would be happy to be corrected.

I would like to request the following information:

1. A list of current New Zealand firearms licences, identified by the
following information:
- Type of licence (e.g. dealer licence, visitor's licence)
- Gender of licence holder
- Age of licence holder
- Endorsements on the licence

I believe that providing only the above information would sufficiently
anonymise the information so as to not raise privacy concerns. However, if
there are specific rare cases where the combination of all this
information is likely sufficient to identify the licence holder and NZ
Police believes this is not justified by public interest, I would be happy
for age and/or gender to be withheld for those specific cases as necessary
to preserve the licence holder's privacy.

2. The total number of firearms licence holders and the total number of
firearms licences with each endorsement type per region in New Zealand.

If region data is not directly available I'd be happy for a substitute
that could be used to derive this information, such as postcode, to be
used instead.

Please release all of this information in spreadsheet format, preferably
CSV or XSLX.

Nāku, nā,
Mark Hanna

[1] [2] 
http://www.police.govt.nz/advice/firearm...
 

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Dear Mr Hanna
Your reply is at the last stage of review and should be with you in the next day or two. I apologise for the delay and remind you of your right to complain to the Ombudsman.
Yours sincerely
T McMahon
Ministerial Services
Police National Headquarters

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