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- Publisher
- SAGE
- Copyright
- ©The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Authors, 1998
- ISSN
- 0004-8658
- eISSN
- 1837-9273
- DOI
- 10.1177/000486589803100107
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
In New Zealand, 200,000licensed 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.
Journal
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE
Published: Apr 1, 1998