On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 9:51:08 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 06:48:10 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 6/4/15 3:22 AM, wrote:

What's the deal with a "New Zealand gun license"?

They get a card from the cops that lets them buy a gun, not unlike
where Richard lives but once they have it, they can also buy a
suppressor for it with "no worries".

The guy we rented the house from had a gun license. We were talking
about it after he saw my Florida CCW. He was really more interested in
how the US laws worked. He was surprised that it was as hard here to
get a suppressor as it was to get a machine gun. He didn't talk much
about his gun but I got the impression that it was a long gun.



It wasn't "hard" to get a suppressor, at least not in Maryland. It was
just the usual sort of governmental paperwork and a several month delay.

I downloaded a pre-written "trust" document, filled in a few blank
spaces with personal info, had the branch manager at my bank notarize my
signature, and turned the trust paperwork over to the gun dealer from
whom I bought the suppressor. He sent the forms and my $200 for the
stamp to the ATF.

I called the ATF once while I was waiting to find out just what the
agency was doing to process applications. The only answer I got was "We
have lots of applications and a very small staff."

Silencerco includes a nice little olive drab belt pouch with its Sparrow
silencer, a size that will also work with a mini-flashlight. Can't
imagine walking around with a silencer on my belt.

Apparently Maryland is doing away with collecting a shell casing from
any new handgun sold in the state, but the seven day waiting period
between buying a handgun and picking it up remains. New rifle transfers
are "instant," assuming you pass the phone call check, and
sales/transfers of used rifles between state residents still require no
government involvement or paperwork. It's a weird patchwork of regs.




I am familiar with the Form 4 process, I had a machine gun and I had
it as an individual.
It almost makes sense for a machine gun but going through all of that
bureaucracy for a can is just stupid.

It's the government, it doesn't have to make sense. Look at the ban that was imposed on AR's. Primarily because they are nearly impossible to conceal, AR's are rarely used in the commission of a crime, but they were targeted by the gov. Stupid.