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Firearms theft in New Zealand — lessons for crime and injury prevention

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posted on 1998-04-01, 00:00 authored by Philip Alpers, Reece WaltersReece Walters
In New Zealand, 200,000 licensed shooters (5.5% of the population) own an estimated 1 million firearms, 9 times more guns per capita than in England and Wales and 20% more than in Australia. Based on a 3 year study of firearm theft in New Zealand, this paper concludes that insecure storage of lawfully held weapons by licensed owners poses a significant public health and safety risk. Furthermore, this paper concludes that the failure of the police to enforce New Zealand gun security laws, and the government’s hesitancy to develop firearm education and regulation policies, exacerbates insecure firearm storage, a key factor in firearm-related theft, injury, suicide, violence and criminal activity.

History

Journal

Australian & New Zealand journal of criminology

Volume

31

Issue

1

Pagination

85 - 95

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Location

London, Eng.

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

1998, SAGE Publications

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