Have heard a point come up regarding recent gun law changes in NZ that it could risk a weapon shortage should we be called to arms akin to 1940-1943
https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/34574/home-guard
http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/schol...-1Hom-c12.html
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Rifles, though promised often, were slow to appear apart from those owned by an élite minority. In January 1941 some elderly rifles were issued for training purposes, though not certified fit for firing.82 A few weeks later the Prime Minister appealed for the loan of .303 rifles, promising to make good all deterioration or loss, but the response was slight: more than two weeks later only 30 had been handed in throughout the Auckland police district from Wellsford to Huntly, only two from Auckland city.83 At the end of April an impressment order was gazetted, requiring all rifles or parts thereof to be handed in immediately, but this did not produce a flood, and shortage of rifles remained a sore point till well into 1942.
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