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  • Individual licence

    Apply for or manage your standard firearms licence. Keep your personal details up to date so your licence information stays accurate. 


    Changes for Individual licence holders

    • Get licenced

      • Before you apply
      • Apply or reapply
      • Related licensing information
      • Firearms Licensing Review Committee

    • Manage your licence

      • Keep your details up to date
      • Surrender a firearms licence
      • When a firearms licence holder dies
      • Notification and applications forms

    • Courses and Education

      • Firearms safety course
      • Firearms safety course options
      • Firearms safety e-learning
      • Find a firearms mentor

  • Endorsements and permits

    Endorsements are added to your licence to allow you to possess certain restricted firearms or items. Permits are approvals to import or possess them. In most cases, you need the right endorsement before you can apply for a permit.


    Changes for Endorsements and permits

    • Endorsements

      • How endorsements work
      • Bona fide collector endorsement
      • Memento or heirloom endorsement
      • Animal and biosecurity control endorsement
      • Pistol target shooting endorsement
      • Broadcaster, theatrical, living history, and theatrical armourer endorsements
      • Endorsement forms

    • Permits

      • How permits work
      • Permits to possess
      • Permit to possess forms
      • Permits to import
      • Permit to import forms

  • Businesses and organisations

    Apply for or manage a business or museum licence, club approval, or range certification. Find information for businesses, museums, clubs, and ranges that use, display, sell, or store firearms.


    Changes for Businesses

    Changes for Museums

    Changes for Clubs and ranges

    • For businesses

      • Before you apply
      • Apply or renew
      • Business licence requirements
      • Business employee endorsement
      • Using the Business Transactions form
      • Export, import or manufacture arms items
      • Ammunition sellers
      • Other application forms

    • For museums

      • Museum licence
      • Apply for a Museum licence
      • Museum worker licence
      • Apply for a Museum worker licence
      • Museum guidance and Registry information

    • Clubs and ranges

      • Overview

  • Buy, sell and register

    Buy, sell, or transfer firearms and arms items. Find information about when and how to record transactions in the Firearms Registry.


    Changes for Buy, sell and register

    • Buy and sell

      • When a firearm changes hands
      • Mail order and internet sales forms
      • Lost, stolen or destroyed
      • Firearms licence checker
      • Disposal of firearms and arms items

    • Firearms Registry

      • About MyFirearms
      • About the Firearms Registry
      • When to register
      • What to register
      • How to register
      • Get help registering a firearm
      • Photographing firearms for the registry

    • Registry information for organisations

      • What the Registry means for business
      • Clubs armourers and the Firearms Registry

  • Safety, storage and wellbeing

    Guidance on firearms safety, secure storage, transporting firearms, safe hunting practices, and support for licence holders and health practitioners.


    Changes for Safety, storage and wellbeing

    • Safety Fundamentals

      • Firearms Safety Code
      • 7 rules of firearm safety
      • Using a firearm without a licence

    • Health and wellbeing

      • Mental health and wellbeing for firearms licence holders
      • Health-related licensing responsibilities
      • Information for health practitioners
      • Health practitioner forms

    • Storage, transportation and display

      • Storage and transportation of firearms and ammunition
      • Travelling overseas with firearms
      • Display and storage obligations for RSA branches

    • Hunting and recreation

      • Hunter safety
      • Airgun safety
      • Competitions and prizes
      • Hunting access and unlawful hunting activities
      • Shooting on rural lifestyle properties or small holdings

  • Visit and move to NZ

    Find information for bringing firearms into New Zealand, or using firearms while visiting. 


    Changes for Visit and move to NZ

     

    • Visit New Zealand

      • Before you apply for a visitor licence
      • Apply for a visitor licence
      • Bring arms items when you visit NZ

    • Relocation

      • Moving to New Zealand

  • About us

    News, resources, and information about Firearms Safety and Education New Zealand. 

    • About the Regulator

      • Who we are
      • Our Leadership
      • About firearms licence holders in New Zealand
      • The history of firearms control in New Zealand
      • The Arms Act 2026
      • Other recent firearms law changes

    • News and resources

      • News and updates
      • Firearms data and public information
      • Firearms Pānui
      • Business Pānui
      • Reports and publications
      • Official Information Act Responses (OIAs)

    • Connect with us

      • Contact us
      • Give feedback
      • Careers

Overview

The Arms Act 2026 outline that Firearms Safety and Education New Zealand must regulate target shooting activities across:

  • pistol shooting clubs
  • non-pistol shooting clubs
  • pistol shooting ranges
  • non-pistol shooting ranges
  • temporary non-pistol shooting ranges. 

Read more in the Arms Act 2026:

Shooting clubs and shooting ranges | Arms Act 2026, Part 5 | New Zealand Legislation website
Subpart 1—Pistol shooting clubs | Arms Act 2026 | New Zealand Legislation website
Subpart 2—Non-pistol shooting clubs | Arms Act 2026 | New Zealand Legislation website
Subpart 3—Pistol shooting ranges | Arms Act 2026 | New Zealand Legislation website
Subpart 4—Non-pistol shooting ranges | Arms Act 2026 | New Zealand Legislation website
Subpart 5—Compliance | Arms Act 2026 | New Zealand Legislation website
 

 

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