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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
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
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- Permits
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.

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Changes for Museums

Changes for Clubs and ranges
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
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
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
- Relocation
  - Moving to New Zealand
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