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New air rifle rules
Written by The Trade Me team in General at 4:01pm, Mon 18 Oct 2010
We've tweaked our rules after the Government announced a new requirement will apply to all sales of pre-charged pneumatic (or 'PCP') air rifles. You can read the NZ Police release about the change here.
The guts of it is that PCP air rifles are now “specially dangerous airguns”. This means they now need to be treated as firearms under the Arms Act, and sellers are required by law to ensure that buyers have a firearms licence.
PCP air rifles will now be listed in the Rifles category, rather than in the Air guns & parts category.
For related information, have a read about firearms licensing requirements, and about Trade Me’s restrictions around the sale of firearms/ammunition.