More of an export compliance rather than legal thread but close enough.
Has anyone got any recent experience of moving from the UK to NZL on a residence visa and taking their firearms?
I’ve spent quite a while researching this and have a good basic understanding of what i can and can’t do with advice from UK export, NZL customs, UK and NZD RFD’s and NZL police. However nothing beats first hand experience.
My options are realistically:
1)Sell all my (many) guns and parts (stocks) and start again - there is a lot to sell!
2)Store in the UK until I’ve been in NZL a year and apply for my licence and then import them (expensive)
3)Export them to a NZL to store locally until I can get my license (also expensive)
I cannot get a visitors permit on a residential visa (doesn’t solve the problem of permanent import of my firearms anyway). I also can’t ship in my personal effects container unless I had both a UK and NZD firearms licence.
If anyone had any further suggestions on any of the above including potential storage options I’d be grateful if you can share.
