This article from Thursday on the NZ Herald website gives details about what Jacinda and her minions have now come up with.

Obviously, the term “buy-back” is a misnomer: licensed firearms owners did not buy them from the government but from dealers, so strictly it is a gun “confiscation with or without compensation.”

The Government’s gun buyback scheme covers hundreds of types of guns as well as high capacity magazines and other parts, but excludes economic loss or losses for business interruption.

The last is no surprise: Jacinda and her cohort are ideologically opposed to private business and think anything of economic significance should be owned by the state — but the Treasury will have told her that there is no way her regime can afford to embark upon wholesale nationalizing of businesses.  It’s also probable that the Treasury told her the same thing about banning all guns.  So (at least for now) guns of the type that actually get used in crimes — and not the types she rushed to ban — are not affected.

Why are semi-automatic rifles of the type Jacinda & Co. banned rarely used in crimes, you ask? Essentially because they are heavy, unwieldy, difficult to conceal, have hard kick-back (recoil) and are likely to make you deaf without ear muffs.  (The Christchurch gunman was into weight training.)

The police made clear on their website that they were not ready to have a flood of rifles coming into their stations, and are still not.  But it seems that they have come up with other notions on that.

The hundreds of people they raided over the last three months was to do with terrorizing Jacinda & Co.’s political opponents — and that was rather counterproductive in today’s instant social media age, you might think.

[The plan] will also include a $300 payment for gun owners who wish to modify their illegal gun into a legal one, for example changing a shotgun cartridge capacity from seven to five.

What difference should it make if a shotgun has a cartridge capacity of five rather than seven? So a terrorist can only only shoot five people before having to reload?

…setting prices too low risks discouraging gun owners from handing in their firearms.

Spot on.

The list also includes gun parts — including magazines, silencers, open sights and custom triggers — with a different price setting: 70 per cent of the base price for new or used, and 25 per cent of the base price for poor condition.

The amount to be compensated for a new or near new gun itself is 95% of the new price, so why only 70% for the parts?  Do they not really want the parts?

The scheme does not include compensation for illegal firearms handed in by people without a valid firearms licence, sparking questions about how much safer it will make communities.

Again, spot on.  If the government was serious about this, it would offer “compensation with no questions asked.”  But those semi-automatic rifles in the black market or likely to go there will remain; and if the gangs pay more for them than the government does…

Nash said those firearms will still be illegal and he expected police to crack down on the owners of those guns.

The problem though, Mr Nash, is that the police don’t know who has them.  The Christchurch gunman bought his with an ‘A’ category licence of which there are nearly 250,000 holders, and if Tarrant did, then lots of others will have, too.

If the police start systematically raiding every one of the 250,000 licence holders, that is going to destroy your government’s electoral popularity — and since many of the victims are likely to be National Party members or supporters, the National Party might just reverse its stance on this issue.

An owner of a firearm not covered by the police list can pay a $120 fee and apply for separate valuation.

How nice of you to offer that, Mr Nash… not.

Appeals can also be made to the District or High Court.

There are sure to be plenty of these, including class actions.  Can the courts handle yet more avoidable litigation on top of all the trumped-up, politically-motivated charges? Oh, that’s right; Mr Little said yesterday that the Jacinda government is going to pay for lots more judges, too.

The firearms and parts will then become property of the Crown and will be destroyed.

Naturally: it would not be a good look for the Jacinda government to be seen reselling them, even to friendly governments.

A total of 672 firearms have been handed into police so far, with a further 4815 declared for surrender via the online form.

Weren’t we told that there are an estimated 15,000 of the gun types Jacinda & Co. rushed to ban out there?  Those figures are a third of that.  Hmm.  Jacinda wants to be able to proclaim — in another photo-op in front of a pile of guns — that she has now made everyone safe; she’ll be denied that photo-op if up to 10,000 such guns are out there.

Of course in reality, by creating a black market she has actually made people less safe.

As mentioned previously, we intend to put in an OIA to the police covering various aspects of the whole issue.